Supreme Court Clarifies 'Undue Hardship' Standard for Religious Accommodations in the Workplace
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The decision, which interprets Title VII's reasonable accommodation provision (enacted in 1972), applies to private employees as well as government employees.
"[T]he Does cannot wield the constitutional right to parent as a sword to require the district to adopt policies that help them to direct and control their son's choices," and likewise as to the right to free exercise of religion.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
Some of the points made by Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman in the course of assessing the issue under Jewish law have broader significance, as well.
Justice Breyer thought the Establishment Clause authorizes judges to improve the tone of political discourse. It does not.
Justice Breyer saw church-state controversies as highly and inevitably fact-bound, solvable only through a judicial balancing exercise.
A lesson in how to ensure you lose a case in court.
Justice Breyer did not always vote with the Court’s strict-separationist justices. Good for him.
Even without writing majority opinions, his contributions were important.
"[W]e find no error by the trial court in finding that Father had mentally abused N. The circuit court concluded that N. was 'frightened,' 'scared,' and 'fearful' of his Father's anger and his Father's refusal to accept his sexual orientation."
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The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
OK, not really, but the judge partly denied the motion for summary judgment, which would allow it to go to trial.
Florida Law + New York Law + Jewish Law = ....
S.B. 1718 would make it a third-degree felony to “harbor” or “transport” undocumented immigrants. Some Florida faith leaders say it could threaten their church activities.
The Appellate Court of Maryland just upheld the lower court's finding, and related protective order.
when plaintiff's "connection to his trees [was] rooted in a vague and indeterminate concept of spirituality, quantum physics, and cosmic mechanics."
The Supreme Court considers the scope of federally required religious accommodations at work.
Will Justices Marshall and Brennan's views on how interpret the Congressional statute on this question be vindicated, 45 years later?
discriminates against religious institutions
So holds the D.C. Circuit, relying on federal statutes protecting religious freedom.
A million hypotheticals bloom in arguments over when and where the government may compel speech.