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Religious Ministers And The Scope Of Their Rights To Non-Discrimination In Employment, R. George Wright Apr 2023

Religious Ministers And The Scope Of Their Rights To Non-Discrimination In Employment, R. George Wright

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

The First Amendment is currently thought to bar ministerial employees from any recourse against their religious employer under a wide variety of non-discrimination statutes and other forms of legal protection. The typical critique of this state of affairs seeks to narrow the class of persons who count as ministerial employees. This paper focuses instead on an important, and peculiar, aspect of the ministerial exception doctrine. At present, the law generally prohibits any recovery by ministerial employees for employment discrimination by their religious employer even where the employer’s reasons for the discrimination have nothing to do with any religious doctrine, belief, …


Fetal Equality, Shaakirrah R. Sanders Jan 2020

Fetal Equality, Shaakirrah R. Sanders

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

I join Carliss Chatman’s call to fully consider the equal protection implications of the conception theory and raise an additional right to which a fetus may be entitled as a matter of equal protection: health care, which implicates state laws that provide civil and criminal exemptions to parents who choose religious healing instead of medical care for their children and minor dependents. The evidence of harm to children from religious healing is well documented. Yet, currently, approximately forty-three U.S. states and the District of Columbia have some type of exemption to protect religious healing parents in civil and criminal cases. …


The First Amendment: Religious Freedom For All, Including Muslims, Asma Uddin Sep 2013

The First Amendment: Religious Freedom For All, Including Muslims, Asma Uddin

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Lessons For Religious Liberty Litigation From Kentucky, Jennifer Anglim Kreder Mar 2013

Lessons For Religious Liberty Litigation From Kentucky, Jennifer Anglim Kreder

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Intersection Of Laicite And American Secularism: The French Burqa Ban In The Context Of United States Constitutional Law, Mary-Caitlin Ray Sep 2011

The Intersection Of Laicite And American Secularism: The French Burqa Ban In The Context Of United States Constitutional Law, Mary-Caitlin Ray

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


A Miscarriage Of Justice: Pregnancy Discrimination In Sectarian Schools, Lauren E. Fisher Mar 2010

A Miscarriage Of Justice: Pregnancy Discrimination In Sectarian Schools, Lauren E. Fisher

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Religious Freedom Restoration Act And Smith: Dueling Levels Of Constitutional Scrutiny, Whitney Travis Sep 2007

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act And Smith: Dueling Levels Of Constitutional Scrutiny, Whitney Travis

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Viewpoint Discrimination By Public Universities: Student Religious Organizations And Violations Of University Nondiscrimination Policie, Mark Andrew Snider Mar 2004

Viewpoint Discrimination By Public Universities: Student Religious Organizations And Violations Of University Nondiscrimination Policie, Mark Andrew Snider

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recognizing Substance: Adoptees And Affiliates Of Native American Tribes Claiming Free Exercise Rights Apr 2001

Recognizing Substance: Adoptees And Affiliates Of Native American Tribes Claiming Free Exercise Rights

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Conflict Between Religious Exercise And Efforts To Eradicate Housing Discrimination Against Nontraditional Couples: Should Free Exercise Protect Landlord Bias?, Scott A. Johnson Jan 1996

The Conflict Between Religious Exercise And Efforts To Eradicate Housing Discrimination Against Nontraditional Couples: Should Free Exercise Protect Landlord Bias?, Scott A. Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cruz V. Beto, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1971

Cruz V. Beto, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.