Welcome to the Napa Legal Podcast, where we discuss religious liberty from the perspective of faith-based nonprofits. In this week's episode, Frank DeVito and Joseph Clement explain a new religious liberty case at SCOTUS, a lawsuit centered on the 10 Commandments, and a new law in Tennessee that will protect children from harmful and scarring operations.

In this episode, we discuss:

1:31 The US Supreme Court recently agreed to hear the next major religious liberty case - St. Mary's v. Roy. The state of Colorado excluded the Catholic school from its universal preschool program because of its religious beliefs about gender and the human person. The Court will decide whether government entities can evade protections for religious organizations and the First Amendment through facial neutrality regardless of substantive discrimination.

18:46 The Fifth Circuit recently upheld Texas' law that requires the 10 Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom. The opinion explains that a historical understanding of religious establishment requires government coercion and control of belief, which is not present in this case.

31:11 Tennessee recently enacted law that allow patients to sue doctors that perform “transgender surgeries” on minors. The law authorizes individuals older than 18 to sue doctors that performed certain procedures on them while they were minors, which include medically unnecessary mastectomies and prescribing puberty blockers.

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Topics: Religious freedom, religious liberty, First Amendment, Carson, Trinity Lutheran, Espinoza, Fulton, Smith, religious discrimination, freedom of religion, Establishment Clause, Founding of America, caselaw, legal updates, legal podcast.

The Napa Legal Podcast, April 28, 2026.

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