Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania
Government agencies have the power to determine whether to apply ACA contraceptive mandates to employers, rather than courts directly addressing free exercise claims.
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Topic: Healthcare & Conscience
Doe v. Parson
A state does not establish religion by passing a law that happens to coincide or harmonize with the tenets of some or all religions, even…
Harris v. McRae
A state does not establish religion by passing a law that happens to coincide or harmonize with the tenets of some or all religions.
Pieszak v. Glendale Adventist Medical Center
A broad religious exemption to California's Fair Employment and Housing Act constitutes a permissible legislative purpose.
Kennedy v. Braidwood Management
The Supreme Court is considering whether religiously motivated employers can seek exemptions from ACA preventive care mandates for HIV prevention drugs.
Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center
An employee's refusal to undergo nose swab testing based on fear of ethylene oxide exposure, though religiously motivated, is not entirely religious when premised on…
Anonymous Plaintiffs 1-5 v. The State of Indiana
The Indiana Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal concerning whether the state's near-total abortion ban violates the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Schroeder v. Treto
Section 6.1(1) of Illinois' Health Care Right of Conscience Act violates the First Amendment by compelling anti-abortion health care providers to discuss abortion's benefits as…
Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
Bridger Lee Jensen v. State of Utah
Utah's Controlled Substances Act likely violates federal and state constitutional protections and the Utah Religious Freedom Restoration Act by failing to accommodate religious uses of…