The First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits the establishment of a national religion by Congress or the preference of one religion over another, or — and this is the part most often overlooked today — religion over non-religion. In other words, U.S. citizens are free to believe whatever they want, including nothing at all, when it comes to supernatural explanations for reality.   

A New Jersey appellate court decision allowed a libel suit against The Bergen Record to go ahead even though the defamatory statements were accurately and fairly taken from a bankruptcy court complaint. The ruling contradicts the long-standing protection courts have given to information taken from documents filed with a court.