Amish Men Not Backing Down in Kentucky Fight Over Buggy Safety
On Jacob Gingerich’s farm in western Kentucky, there is no phone or electricity for his family of 12 children. He even sees putting an orange safety triangle on their black horse-drawn buggy as a...
View ArticleJudge Strikes Down Washington Law Mandating Pharmacists Sell Contraception
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Washington state cannot require pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives if to do so violates their religious beliefs. U.S. District Judge Ronald B....
View ArticleMontana Court: Hutterites Must Pay Workers’ Compensation
A divided Montana Supreme Court says forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion....
View ArticleLawsuits Against Birth Control Benefit Appear Supreme Court Bound
The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul appear to be moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court....
View ArticleObama Offers Compromise on Birth Control Insurance Coverage
The Obama administration on Friday sought to settle a dispute with religious leaders over whether employees at faith-affiliated universities, hospitals and other institutions should have access to...
View ArticleSupreme Court Could Take Up Religious Rights of Corporations
U.S. Supreme Court justices could decide on Tuesday to review religious objections made by corporations to a provision of the 2010 federal healthcare law requiring employers to provide health insurance...
View ArticleTexas Businesses Oppose ‘Pro-Discrimination’ Legislation
Two proposed constitutional amendments that supporters say would protect Texans from government intrusion into their free exercise of religion are meeting resistance from a coalition led by a former...
View ArticleNevada Worker Fired For Not Accepting Scientology, Suit Says
A Catholic woman fired from her job at a bottled water company led by a Nevada lawmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against the business, saying she was pressured to watch videos on Scientology and was...
View ArticleSupreme Court Returns Gay Wedding, Religion Rights Case to State
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered reconsideration of a $135,000 award against an Oregon bakery that refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in a case that revived a fractious debate over religious...
View ArticleNext LGBT Legal Battle for Supreme Court Will Be Religious Exemptions: Analysis
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling protecting LGBT rights in the workplace sets the stage for another major legal fight over the scope of religious-rights exemptions to certain federal laws that could...
View ArticleSome Churches, Officials Struggle to Balance Right to Worship with...
Crowded bars and house parties have been identified as culprits in spreading the coronavirus. Meat packing plants, prisons and nursing homes are known hot spots. Then there’s the complicated case of...
View ArticleSupreme Court Temporarily Blocks LGBTQ Order at New York’s Yeshiva University
The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club. The court acted Friday in a brief order signed...
View ArticleNative American Former Student Sues Ok. School for Removing Feather at...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A Native American former student is suing an Oklahoma school district for the removal of an eagle feather from her graduation cap prior to her high school graduation ceremony. The...
View ArticleNew York Ups Workers’ Compensation Benefits; Targets Wage Theft, ‘Captive...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed three bills into law that affect workers, including one raising the minimum disability benefit under workers’ compensation over three years. The second new law...
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