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Court unanimously finds RFRA plaintiffs can sue FBI agents for money damages

Posted on December 13, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that plaintiffs whose religious rights were violated can sue government employees individually for monetary damages.

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LA County recognizes churches are constitutionally exempt from stay-at-home order

Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The language of the new Los Angeles COVID restriction specifically exempts religious gatherings as a matter of constitutional right.  

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Court blocks New York Governor’s COVID Restrictions on Religious Congregations

Posted on November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

In a major victory for religious congregations, delivered late on Thanksgiving Eve, the United States Supreme Court blocked the state of New York from implementing gathering restrictions that the Court ruled discriminate against religious congregations.

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Supreme Court not likely to make individual FBI agents pay for allegedly violating Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by Michael Peabody

On October 6, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case on the issue of whether individual FBI agents can be held financially liable if they are found to have violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  The underlying case involves Muslim-Americans who alleged that individual FBI agents put them on the “no fly” list after they refused to act as informants against fellow Muslims in terrorism-related investigations.

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“I dissent!” A Survey of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Religion Clause Jurisprudence

Posted on September 19, 2020February 8, 2022 by Michael Peabody

Ginsburg wrote little on the religion clauses, but she frequently joined with those Justices who favored a strong separation of church and state. 

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Founders’ First Freedom urges Supreme Court to Restore Title VII Workplace Religious Accommodation Standard

Posted on August 5, 2020August 6, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Today, Founders’ First Freedom, Inc. filed an amicus brief urging the United States Supreme Court to revisit and restore the workplace religious accommodation standard found in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Court rules agency can decide if employers must provide contraceptive coverage

Posted on July 10, 2020July 14, 2020 by Michael Peabody

Supreme Court sidesteps the free exercise claim and grants government agencies the power to determine whether to apply the ACA contraceptive mandates to employers. 

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Did the Supreme Court open the door to regulation of religious schools?

Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

With the death of state Blaine Amendments this week, religious schools that welcome state money might find that they are now subject to regulation that may undermine their very reason for existence. 

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Soros-backed bid to eliminate anti-prostitution pledge loses at SCOTUS

Posted on June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Supreme Court has ruled against George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and upheld a law requiring foreign NGOs receiving funds to sign an anti-prostitution pledge.

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Court strikes down Louisiana law that abortion doctors must have admitting privileges at local hospital

Posted on June 29, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

This morning the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The issue in June Medical Services LLC v. Russo, was whether this limit actually protected the health of pregnant women and wasn’t in place just to make it more difficult to have an abortion. This was very similar to the issue the Court last visited in 2016 (Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt) when it overturned a Texas abortion doctor admitting privileges requirement.

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