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The False Promise Of Expanded Religious Liberty Rights After The Covid-19 Cases And Fulton V. City Of Philadelphia, Shlomo C. Pill Mar 2023

The False Promise Of Expanded Religious Liberty Rights After The Covid-19 Cases And Fulton V. City Of Philadelphia, Shlomo C. Pill

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

This Article explains and critiques the Supreme Court’s recent reframing of religious free exercise rights. This change was initiated by a series of “shadow docket” rulings issued in late 2020 and early 2021 in which the Court sustained religious challenges to COVID-19 capacity restrictions and mask mandates. That doctrinal shift was confirmed and reinforced by the Court’s subsequence decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In these cases, the Court significantly narrowed the Smith test, which, since 1990, had subjected neutral and generally applicable laws that burden religious practice to only rational basis review. Under the Court’s new free …


Breaking The Seal Of Confession: Examining The Constitutionality Of The Clergy-Penitent Privilege In Mandatory Reporting Law, Caroline Donze Jan 2018

Breaking The Seal Of Confession: Examining The Constitutionality Of The Clergy-Penitent Privilege In Mandatory Reporting Law, Caroline Donze

Louisiana Law Review

The article focuses on intersection of mandatory reporting legislation and the clergy-penitent privilege illustrates a conflict between the public policy goal of protecting children and the constitutional right to Free Exercise of religion and negative effects on the reporting of child abuse.


An Antitrust Approach To Corporate Free Exercise Claims, Ronald J. Colombo Jan 2018

An Antitrust Approach To Corporate Free Exercise Claims, Ronald J. Colombo

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 573 U.S. ___, 124 S. Ct. 2751 (2014), the United States Supreme Court held that the religious liberty protections contained in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act apply to for-profit business corporations. Although many laud the decision as a hard-fought victory for religious freedom, others fear the consequences of the decision. Two consequences in particular have been most commonly identified by the decision’s detractors.

First, Burwell may give businesses a “license to discriminate,” by allowing them to opt out of laws that protect minorities and other groups on religious grounds. This threatens to undo decades of …


By The Pricking Of My Thumbs, State Restriction This Way Comes: Immunizing Vaccination Laws From Constitutional Review, Megan Joy Rials Oct 2016

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs, State Restriction This Way Comes: Immunizing Vaccination Laws From Constitutional Review, Megan Joy Rials

Louisiana Law Review

The article argues how states should not allow philosophical exemptions and should either retain or create religious exemptions that meet certain requirements under the Free Exercise Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Establishment Clause. It reports the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence regarding parental rights in cases 'Jacobson v. Massachusetts' and 'Zucht v. King.'


Free Exercise After The Arab Spring: Protecting Egypt’S Religious Minorities Under The Country’S New Constitution, James Michael Nossett Oct 2014

Free Exercise After The Arab Spring: Protecting Egypt’S Religious Minorities Under The Country’S New Constitution, James Michael Nossett

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


God Is Great, Garvey Is Good: Making Sense Of Religious Freedom, Michael Stokes Paulsen Feb 2014

God Is Great, Garvey Is Good: Making Sense Of Religious Freedom, Michael Stokes Paulsen

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contraception And The Birth Of Corporate Conscience, Elizabeth Sepper Jan 2014

Contraception And The Birth Of Corporate Conscience, Elizabeth Sepper

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Marriage In The Time Of Internet Ministers: I Now Pronounce You Married, But Who Am I To Do So?, Robert E. Rains Apr 2010

Marriage In The Time Of Internet Ministers: I Now Pronounce You Married, But Who Am I To Do So?, Robert E. Rains

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Anomalies: When Canada's Proportionality And The U.S.'S Categorization Just Don't Fit The Bill, Zakarij N. Laux Apr 2010

Constitutional Anomalies: When Canada's Proportionality And The U.S.'S Categorization Just Don't Fit The Bill, Zakarij N. Laux

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Modifying The Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act To Create A Constitutional Statutory Protection For Religious Landowners, Sara Witt Jan 2009

Modifying The Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act To Create A Constitutional Statutory Protection For Religious Landowners, Sara Witt

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.


What Yoder Wrought: Religious Disparagement, Parental Alienation And The Best Interests Of The Child, Jeffrey Shulman Jan 2008

What Yoder Wrought: Religious Disparagement, Parental Alienation And The Best Interests Of The Child, Jeffrey Shulman

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Above The Law? The Constitutionality Of The Ministerial Exemption From Antidiscrimination Law, Caroline Mala Corbin Jan 2007

Above The Law? The Constitutionality Of The Ministerial Exemption From Antidiscrimination Law, Caroline Mala Corbin

Articles

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Religious Exemptions, Formal Neutrality, And Laïcité, Frederick Mark Gedicks Jul 2006

Religious Exemptions, Formal Neutrality, And Laïcité, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Rights to free exercise in the United States are governed by a doctrine of formal neutrality, which seems to resemble the French doctrine of la'cit6. This resemblance tempts one to conclude that the doctrinal regimes of religious liberty in the United States and France are also essentially the same. Despite their superficial resemblance, however formal neutrality and laĭcité generate regimes of religious liberty that are substantially, even radically, different. Notwithstanding conceptually similar organizing principles, there is a significant difference in the substance of religious liberty in the United States and France owing to very different conceptions of the proper role …


Religion, Speech, And The Minnesota Constitution: State-Based Protections Amid First Amendment Instabilities, Steven P. Aggergaard Jan 2006

Religion, Speech, And The Minnesota Constitution: State-Based Protections Amid First Amendment Instabilities, Steven P. Aggergaard

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


"Play In The Joints Between The Religion Clauses" And Other Supreme Court Catachreses, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 2006

"Play In The Joints Between The Religion Clauses" And Other Supreme Court Catachreses, Carl H. Esbeck

Hofstra Law Review

Consistent with its fumbling of late when dealing with cases involving religion, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken to reciting the metaphor of play in the joints between the Religion Clauses. This manner of framing the issue before the Court presumes that the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses run in opposing directions, and indeed will often conflict. It then becomes the Court's task, as it sees it, to determine if the law in question falls safely in the narrows where there is space for legislative action neither compelled by the Free Exercise Clause nor prohibited by the Establishment Clause. The …


Taking Free Exercise Rights Seriously, Alan Brownstein Jan 2006

Taking Free Exercise Rights Seriously, Alan Brownstein

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.


Religious Organizations And Mandatory Collective Bargaining Under Federal And State Labor Laws: Freedom From And Freedom For, Kathleen A. Brady Jan 2004

Religious Organizations And Mandatory Collective Bargaining Under Federal And State Labor Laws: Freedom From And Freedom For, Kathleen A. Brady

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Malicki V. Doe: Defining A Split Of Authority Based On The State Tort Claims Of Negligent Hiring And Supervision Of Roman Catholic Clergy And The First Amendment Conflict, Christopher L. Barbaruolo Jan 2003

Malicki V. Doe: Defining A Split Of Authority Based On The State Tort Claims Of Negligent Hiring And Supervision Of Roman Catholic Clergy And The First Amendment Conflict, Christopher L. Barbaruolo

Hofstra Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Distinctive Place Of Religious Entities In Our Constitutional Order, Ira C. Lupu, Robert Tuttle Jan 2002

The Distinctive Place Of Religious Entities In Our Constitutional Order, Ira C. Lupu, Robert Tuttle

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Essential Rights And Liberties Of Religion In The American Constitutional Experiment, John Witte Jr. Jun 1999

Essential Rights And Liberties Of Religion In The American Constitutional Experiment, John Witte Jr.

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Religion Clause Anti-Theories, Thomas C. Berg Jun 1999

Religion Clause Anti-Theories, Thomas C. Berg

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Diverse Perspectives And The Religion Clauses: An Examination Of Justifications And Qualifying Beliefs, Kent Greenawalt Jun 1999

Diverse Perspectives And The Religion Clauses: An Examination Of Justifications And Qualifying Beliefs, Kent Greenawalt

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Revitalization Of The Free Exercise Of Religion Under State Constitutions: A Response To Employment Division V. Smith, Stuart G. Parsell Jun 1999

Revitalization Of The Free Exercise Of Religion Under State Constitutions: A Response To Employment Division V. Smith, Stuart G. Parsell

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Religious Hybrids In The Lower Courts: Free Exercise Plus Or Constitutional Smoke Screen, William L. Esser Iv Oct 1998

Religious Hybrids In The Lower Courts: Free Exercise Plus Or Constitutional Smoke Screen, William L. Esser Iv

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


First Principles And Fair Consideration: The Developing Clash Between The First Amendment And The Constructive Fraudulent Conveyance Laws, Jonathan C. Lipson Oct 1997

First Principles And Fair Consideration: The Developing Clash Between The First Amendment And The Constructive Fraudulent Conveyance Laws, Jonathan C. Lipson

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Orthodox Jewish Prisoners And The Turner Effect, Eric J. Zogry Aug 1996

Orthodox Jewish Prisoners And The Turner Effect, Eric J. Zogry

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Understanding Faith: When Religious Parents Decline Conventional Medical Treatment For Their Children, Anne D. Lederman Jan 1995

Understanding Faith: When Religious Parents Decline Conventional Medical Treatment For Their Children, Anne D. Lederman

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.


No Sinners Under My Roof: Can California Landlords Refuse To Rent To Unmarried Couples By Claiming A Religious Freedom Of Exercise Exemption From A Statute Which Prohibits Marital Status Discrimination?, Malgorzata K. Laskowska Jan 1995

No Sinners Under My Roof: Can California Landlords Refuse To Rent To Unmarried Couples By Claiming A Religious Freedom Of Exercise Exemption From A Statute Which Prohibits Marital Status Discrimination?, Malgorzata K. Laskowska

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


What Hath Congress Wrought - An Interpretive Guide To The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Thomas C. Berg Jan 1994

What Hath Congress Wrought - An Interpretive Guide To The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Thomas C. Berg

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comment: Not A Prayer For Curricular Reform After Lee V. Weisman, Joanne C. Brant Jan 1993

Comment: Not A Prayer For Curricular Reform After Lee V. Weisman, Joanne C. Brant

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.