Rutherford & ACLU Defend Jewish Detective
"Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have agreed to act as co-counsel with the Nevada ACLU in a religious discrimination lawsuit involving a Las Vegas police officer who was prohibited from wearing a head covering and growing a beard. Steve Riback, a captain in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and an observant Orthodox Jew, is challenging the police department’s refusal to accommodate his sincere religious beliefs by allowing him to wear a trimmed beard and cover his head with a yarmulke . . . " Rutherford Institute press release (2.4.2008).