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Can Court Force You to Disobey Your Religion?

By Sean Sirrine

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In Massachusetts you can! This is probably the correct result only because the plaintiff failed to list the judge who issued the order as a defendant. Of course, the judge states that it wouldn't have been a constitutional violation even if the judge were named, but I have a hard time believing that the issue is that cut-and-dry. (It probably doesn't help that this guy made some seriously frivolous arguments.)



In Segelman v. City of Springfield, (D MA, June 11, 2008), a Massachusetts federal district court rejected Shalom Segelman's claim that the city of Springfield, Massachusetts violated his free exercise, equal protection and due process rights when it "insisted" that a contempt proceeding against him go forward in state Housing Court on a Jewish holiday. The court said that the decision on the hearing date was made by the judge, not the city, and that failure to accommodate Segelman's holiday observance did not rise to a constitutional violation.

Full post as published by Objective Justice on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).

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