April 12, 2024
The Fifth Circuit has upheld a lower court's decision ordering the city of San Antonio to allow Native American church members access to a park under renovation for religious ceremonies but declined to enjoin the city's planned tree removal and bird deterrence program.
February 22, 2024
The Fifth Circuit said San Antonio, Texas, can move ahead with its bird deterrence program at a park where Native American church members claim the city is violating their religious rights by pursuing renovation plans that will harm a sacred area's spiritual ecology by removing trees and driving off nesting cormorants.
December 07, 2023
A Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday leaned on San Antonio to show it considered ways to renovate a city park that would preserve a riverfront area sacred to a Native American church that accuses the city of trampling on its religious practices.