Religion & Law

Workplace Religious Freedom Act Debated
Thanks for Melissa Rogers for pointing to this RNS story about the recent House subcommittee hearing on workplace discrimination, including religious discrimination. Legislators are considering the Workplace Religious Freedom Act - which has long been in the pipeline with broad...

Statements from Workplace Discrimination Hearing Available
Opening statements are online from the House hearing on workplace discrimination held by the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee earlier this week. Below are links to those who addressed the issue of religious discrimination, including the Workplace Religious Freedom...

Parkinson on Anti-Discrimination, Vilification, and Religious Minorities
Patrick Parkinson (University of Sydney Law School) has posted Religious Vilification, Anti-Discrimination Laws and Religious Minorities in Australia: The Freedom to Be Different (Australian Law Journal, Vol...

"Specific Tenet of a Person's Religious Faith":
The Pennsylvania Religious Freedom Protection Act, 71 Penn Stats. §§ 2401 et seq., is pretty much a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which mandates religious exemptions whenever a law substantially burdens...

UN Report On Religious Freedom In Britain Released
Religious Intelligence reported yesterday that the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief has prepared a report on religious freedom in Britain. While finding a high degree of freedom, the report indicated a number of issues that remain...

Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act Trumps Tort Claims Act
In Shrum v. City of Coweta, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27930 (ED OK, March 28, 2008), an Oklahoma federal district court held that the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act authorizes a religious discrimination claim against Coweta, Oklahoma's police chief in his indivdual capacity...

Uniform Pre-marital Agreement Act
Standard Prenuptial Law

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

Prenuptial Agreements
Make an Airtight Prenuptial Agreement

Religious Decorations
Oklahoma City to pay attorney fees in religious freedom violations lawsuit.

Religious Discrimination
NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement.

Discrimination
race, gender, disability, religious or age discrimiation.

Wendy's International Inc.
allegedly fired illegal immigrant employees after missing a deadline to obtain legal status.

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.

Clergy Molester
Religious group to pay $1.3 million in priest molestation settlement.