Current Events
Why the Free Exercise Clause needs to be strengthened
The Free Exercise Clause that guarantees religious freedom is much weaker than most people realize. While freedom of speech, freedom of the…
Michael Peabody
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Employment Law
Supreme Court rules that Title VII EEOC filing requirements are mandatory but not jurisdictional
The Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 3, 2019, in a case (Fort Bend County v. Davis) involving whether a court may hear a discriminatio…
Current Events
Another cake case gives Court opportunity to resolve free exercise confusion
Too broad an exception from neutral, generally applicable law, and protections against discrimination vanish. Too narrow an exception and fr…
Current Events
New York Court Upholds Emergency Mandatory Vaccination
Taking the significance of the public health emergency and religious beliefs into account when deciding what to do in these circumstances is…
Employment Law
Supreme Court Requests Solicitor General’s Opinion on Sabbath Accommodation Case
The value of the Patterson case does not merely hinge on its facts, which would likely have to be developed at the trial level, but more imp…
Current Events
The Impact of AI and Machine Learning on Online Casinos
Whether a religious symbol or edifice needs to masquerade as a secular structure in order to escape Establishment Clause scrutiny is at issu…
Supreme Court
Supreme Court: The 8th Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment
This morning, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that the 14th Amendment applies the "Excessive Fines Clause" of the 8th Amendm…
Religious Institutions
Parties objecting to regulatory decision must follow administrative process
This week the Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case where nuns filed their Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) case opposing a pipe…
Constitution
High Court decision on Muslim clergy at execution challenges rule of law
In ruling that an unwritten rule, quite possibly manufactured after the execution was already scheduled, should not be subject to a judicial…
Employment Law
Justices hint interest in revisiting Title VII religious accommodation while declining to hear football coach prayer case
It is debatable whether a claim by a public school football coach that he is compelled by religious belief to pray at the 50-yard line follo…