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As Kagan wrote, the administration may not have used “reasoned decisionmaking,” and lower courts should attempt to resolve the issue in the next round. Motion of the Solicitor General for divided argument GRANTED. Help CAC continue our work by making a tax-deductible donation. Alito (joined by Gorsuch) wrote that he would have gone much further, arguing that the prior administration’s refusal to broaden the accommodation to sincere religious objectors violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of American Association of University Women, et al. VIDED.

Decided. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of Administrative Law Scholars filed. Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed. Brief amici curiae of Nicholas Bagley and Samuel L. Bray filed (in 19-454). filed. Yes, the next administration could change the opt-out rules again.

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury issued interim final rules that made the accommodation optional and provided an unconditional exemption from the contraceptive coverage requirement for not-for-profit, educational, and for-profit employers whose owners possessed sincere religious or moral objections to contraception. VIDED.

Brief amici curiae of Constitutional Law Scholars filed. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of The National Women’s Law Center, et al. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of Legal Scholars filed.

Justice Ginsburg filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor joined. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of CHILD USA, et al. VIDED. On Tuesday, the justices will hold their "long conference" after summer recess.

VIDED.

Brief amici curiae of The Cato Institute and Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty filed. VIDED. Justice Alito filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice Gorsuch joined. 19-431 filed by petitioner GRANTED. filed. RESCHEDULED FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. 19-454 filed (in 19-454).

VIDED. Petition GRANTED.

filed. Blanket Consent filed by Federal respondents. (Distributed), Brief amicus curiae of Howard University School of Law, Civil and Human Rights Clinic filed.

Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice filed.

Jul 8, 2020. (Distributed), Brief amicus curiae of Yale Law School Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice filed. filed. Holding: The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury had authority under the Affordable Care Act to promulgate rules exempting employers with religious or moral objections from providing contraceptive coverage to their employees. Awarded the Sigma Delta Chi deadline reporting award for online coverage of the Affordable Care Act decision. VIDED. VIDED. VIDED. VIDED. President Donald Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Advocates.

As religious dissenters continue to swallow the protections, rights, and entitlements afforded to women under the law, the trend lines are clear.

Click here for important resources on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett and the confirmation process.We're hosting a symposium on the jurisprudence of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. VIDED. Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 7-2, in an opinion by Justice Thomas on July 8, 2020. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of National League of Cities, United States Conference of Mayers, International City/County Management Association and International Municipal Lawyers Association filed (in 19-454). Jan 17, 2020.

Blanket Consent filed by Petitioners, The Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home.

(Distributed).

3rd Circuit has been electronically filed.

Submit Event, On Thursday, Sept. 17, the National Constitution Center awarded its Liberty Medal to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a program featuring performances by internationally renowned opera singers and tributes from special guests.

Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term; 19-431: 3rd Cir. This website may use cookies to improve your experience. Our brief on behalf of scholars in the field of military history demonstrated through a review of these many examples that what Little Sisters and other challengers of the accommodation suggested is an impermissible burden on free exercise is historically a common practice—accommodating conscientious objectors by shifting their obligations to third parties who do not share that objection.
(Distributed), Brief amici curiae of Military Historians filed. May 6, 2020.

(Distributed), Brief amici curiae of Professors of Criminal Law, Former State Attorneys General, and Former United States Department of Justice Officials filed. (Distributed), Brief amici curiae of Church-State Scholars filed.
Motion for leave to dispense with printing the joint appendix in No. Symposia on rulings from October Term 2019. In fact, religious accommodations have often required religious objectors to play a far more active role in shifting that responsibility than does the accommodation here, for example requiring religious objectors opposed to war to pay for a substitute to serve or take some other action to satisfy the important interests of the government.

That case was heard by the court in May. Brief amicus curiae of Christian Legal Society filed. filed. VIDED.

Letter of October 23, 2019 from counsel for petitioners received. VIDED. VIDED. VIDED, Brief amicus curiae of Independent Women's Law Center filed. Paul D. Clement for … In 2017, the Trump administration broadened the category of religious exemptions to include yet more employers who wanted to be free from the obligation to cover their workers’ contraception. Brief amici curiae of 92 Members of Congress filed. filed. Consolidated with: Trump v. Pennsylvania; Docket No. The government estimated at oral arguments that broadening the religious exemption would result in as many as 125,000 women losing their statutorily mandated contraceptive coverage.

Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania.

Blanket Consent filed by Respondents, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania et al. The record received from the U.S.C.A. (Distributed), Brief amicus curiae of Prof. Martin S. Lederman filed. “And the plain language of the statute clearly allows the Departments to create the preventive care standards as well as the religious and moral exemptions.”, Thomas was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.

Awarded the Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media. supreme court of the united states in the supreme court of the united states little sisters of the poor ) saints peter and paul home, ) petitioner, ) v. ) no. VIDED. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content.

In 2016, in Zubik v. Burwell, the Court refused to strike down the accommodation, giving the parties another opportunity to find a solution that respected the rights of employer and employee alike. Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix in No. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can leave if you wish. 19-454 is granted. Brief amicus curiae of March for Life Education and Defense Fund filed.

VIDED. Brief amici curiae of Inner Life Fund and Institute for Faith and Family filed. VIDED. (Distributed), Brief amicus curiae of The Guttmacher Institute filed. With these religious objector cases, we are witnessing the blurring of women’s constitutional and statutory rights into the background as the interests of everyone else, including their religious bosses, are positioned as singular and urgent. Brief amici curiae of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., et al.