What if a doctor feels a religious obligation to perform abortions, (e.g., because he believes doing so is necessary for him to be the Good Samaritan, by removing a threat to his patient's mental ...

"The Roberts court is populated with judges who are religious and believe that religious principles, precepts and beliefs are paramount. It is altering the balance between the Free Exercise Clause and ...

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court expressly abandoned the Lemon Test, which had been used by the Court to determine whether an Establishment Clause violation of the ...

A discussion of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution and significant caselaw pertaining to the exercise of religion in the US. The US Supreme Court recently issued a ...

It’s often hard to know, at the end of a U.S. Supreme Court term, what was most important about it. On the list for the current term may well be two decisions under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise ...

From Resurrection School v. Hertel, decided yesterday by Judge Karen Nelson Moore joined by Judge Bernice Donald: [Plaintiffs assert] that MDHHS's mask requirement for students in grades K–5 violates ...

In Fiddler on the Roof, the main character—Tevye der Milkhiker—begins the play with an ode to “Tradition.” The song recounts how the duties of religion, family, and work ensure continuity amid change.

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that Philadelphia’s ordinance requiring a private foster care agency to certify same-sex couples as foster parents burdened the ...

In the 1990s the U.S. Supreme Court decided a handful of religious liberty cases on the basis of the First Amendment’s free speech clause. The most significant of these was Rosenberger v. University ...