The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for ...

The case centered on St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, an online-only institution that wanted to launch as a state-funded charter school. Opponents argued that state funding for the ...

With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that a public religious charter school would violate the separation of church and state.

WASHINGTON — Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first religious public charter school after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 Thursday in a major case on the separation of church ...

The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school in the state.

A split Supreme Court ruling upholds a lower court decision that prohibited Oklahoma from establishing the nation's first Christian charter school.

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning left in place a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting an effort by a Catholic ...

The creation of the nation's first religious charter school was blocked by a tie vote from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's absence due to recusal was key to the outcome of the case, and the issue could return to the court in the future to be heard before all its members.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a swift and somewhat ... a case challenging Oklahoma’s unprecedented approval of a religious charter school. “The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided court ...

One of the GOP justices must have defected in a case about religious schools, but the Court didn’t reveal who it was.

By Sarah Mervosh and Dana Goldstein A surprise Supreme Court ruling on Thursday prevented the nation’s first religious charter school from opening in Oklahoma, in a 4-to-4 vote that seemed to ...