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No U.S. state has “passed Sharia law” as a parallel legal system; instead, more than a dozen states have enacted laws or ballot measures intended to block courts from applying “Sharia,” “foreign,” or ...
Anti‑Sharia and “foreign‑law” restrictions have been proposed in roughly two dozen states; a handful of states enacted versions of the American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) model and related measur...
Several states have enacted laws or amendments that bar courts from applying “Sharia” or broader “foreign/international” law; prominent examples cited in reporting include Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Lo...
Since 2010, state legislatures have introduced of bills aimed at restricting foreign or “Sharia” law, but the number of states that have successfully enacted such laws is contested across sources: som...
Muslim American organizations have uniformly opposed anti‑Sharia laws through coordinated legal challenges, public education campaigns, and advocacy framing the statutes as unnecessary and discriminat...
Since 2020, federal and state courts have continued a pattern of skepticism toward laws and amendments aimed specifically at “Sharia” or broadly banning foreign or religious law, frequently finding su...
Several high‑profile legal fights over anti‑Sharia and American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) model laws culminated in a decisive federal appeal in the Oklahoma matter, but reporting and legal summa...
State statutes that target “Sharia” typically define the phrase indirectly — not as a detailed set of Islamic legal rules but as “foreign law,” “religious law,” or “any law…derived from a jurisdiction...
Federal courts have repeatedly rebuffed laws that explicitly singled out “Sharia” as unlawful, finding such measures discriminatory and likely to violate the First Amendment’s establishment and free‑e...
As of the materials in the provided reporting, U.S. states have a patchwork of “foreign law” or so‑called anti‑Sharia measures that were passed in roughly eight states in the early 2010s and many more...
State “anti‑Sharia” laws and proposed federal bills seek to bar courts or officials from applying Sharia or foreign religious law; courts have invalidated at least one such state amendment for singlin...