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On June 25 2015 the Affordable Care Act ACA dodged a potentially fatal legal bullet In King v Burwell the US Supreme Court in a majority decision written by Chief Justice Roberts rejected a challenge to an IRS tax credit regulation that threatened to unwind the entire fabric of President Ob
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Title VII establishes a preference for religious accommodation in the workplace.
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On Tuesday April 28 the U S Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Obergefell v Hodges a case that will decide whether the U S constitution requires states to license marriages between two people of the same sex and or requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed out-of-state To a
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On January 16 2015 the U S Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from cases decided by the U S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that held the 14th Amendment does not require states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or recognize same-sex marriages licensed in other states The S
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On May 5 2014 the U S Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote that the Town of Greece New York did not violate the First Amendment when it invited local clergy to pray before the opening of town board meetings Significantly all nine justices affirmed the constitutionality of public legislative pr
Religious freedom, Obamacare and the rights of American business: Ellen K. Boegel's legal backgrounder on the Hobby Lobby case
Catholic Press Association award winner for Best Coverage of Marriage: "Language, tone and style appropriate to help explain a highly complex situation."
On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases related to same-sex marriage, United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry. In Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the definition of marriage set forth in DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, violated the Fifth Amend
Media reaction to the recent United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the federal ban on partial-birth abortion reflected unfortunate confusion concerning the legitimate relationship between religion and political debate in American society. The case, Gonzales v. Carha