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Oklahoma approved a 2010 constitutional amendment that named 'Sharia' and barred state courts from using it or 'international law', but courts enjoined the measure as unconstitutional.
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...
State-level "anti‑Sharia" measures are a patchwork: dozens of bills were introduced nationwide and a significant number of states passed laws or ballot measures prohibiting courts from applying "Shari...
A wave of state-level measures explicitly aimed at blocking from American courts spread across statehouses in the 2010s, driven largely by a model bill and activists; courts and legal groups have repe...
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...