It looks at the legal questions of whether this requirement violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) as well as how it relates to women's health issues.ALVARÉ, HELENAmerica
Federal religious freedom and conscience protections, such as the provisions in the relevant statute from which the applicant or recipient is requesting an exemption; the Church, Coats-Snowe, and Weldon Amendments; the generally applicable requirements of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA);...
is seeking exemptions to bothBostockand EEOC policy that would allow employers to discriminate against LGBT workers based on sincerely held religious beliefs, under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and/or the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment...
The court’s decision bespoke a desire to justify the restoration of the German Reich, to interfere in the domestic affairs of the GDR, and to include West Berlin in the FRG. The government of the FRG concurred with the decision. In domestic affairs it continued, with some variations, to ...
O'Connor wrote in a 46-page ruling that the rules "likely violate" the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and "places substantial pressure on Plaintiffs to perform and cover transition and abortion procedures." Transgender rights advocates have called that a far-fetched hypothetical, saying a person...
The Supreme Court granted certiorari inSebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.andConestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebeliusto resolve a question of statutory construction:Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) entitle a for-profit corporation to an exemption from the requirement of...
It looks at the legal questions of whether this requirement violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) as well as how it relates to women's health issues.EBSCO_AspAmerica
Smith, 1 Congress enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (" RFRA"). 2 In enacting RFRA, Congress sought to require States that burden" free exercise" to show a compelling State interest for doing so. As consitutional authority forKristian D. Whitten...
However, there are two main reasons why the most recent executive order should not crumble under the Hobby Lobby holding when faced with the likely legal challenges claiming that the order's lack of a religious exemption is a violation of the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (RFRA). First...
doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-76James E. KeyThe Air Force Law ReviewKey, J. (2010). "This Land is My Land: The Tension Between Federal Use of Public Lands and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act." AFL Rev. 65: 51-106.