The last sentence of the Court’s opinion in Hosanna-Tabor announces the dogma that binds the majority opinion. Affirming for the…
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Religious freedom defeats secular law
Secular law lost unanimously in the Supreme Court of the United States last week. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…
Ministerial exception upheld
Earlier today, the Supreme Court released its decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., a case that brought into question the validity…
Are religious institutions entitled to disobey the law?
One recurring justification for the ministerial exception has been the “problem” of women priests. The specter of the Roman Catholic…
Regulating religion
Where does the line lie between constitutional protection of religious exceptionalism and the need to enforce state laws ensuring fair…
Going to law
Last week, in the first week of its October 2011 term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a suit…
Religion, the state, and a changing court
In a New York Times opinion piece, Linda Greenhouse raises questions about how today's Supreme Court might take a different approach…
Conflict resolution curtailed
At altmuslim, civil rights attorney Sahar Aziz comments on the US Supreme Court's recent decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project…
Kagan opposed by secularists
In the past weeks, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has attracted the ire of countless, largely conservative, political blocs. Yet,…
Ruling against discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled against the Christian Legal Society at the University of California's Hastings College of Law, which claimed that the…