Major US Supreme Court Cases on the Exercise of Religious Freedom
I studied 02 SCOTUS cases concerning the exercise of religious freedom. I looked into primary sources, transcribing their main arguments. The goal was to describe the Court’s approach to laws that burden the exercise of a particular religion. I noticed that in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/61013 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistafadir/article/view/61013 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Direitos fundamentais liberdade religiosa free exercise clause Fundamental rights religious freedom |
| Sumario: | I studied 02 SCOTUS cases concerning the exercise of religious freedom. I looked into primary sources, transcribing their main arguments. The goal was to describe the Court’s approach to laws that burden the exercise of a particular religion. I noticed that in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, city ordinances prohibiting animal sacrifice were unanimously considered void, especially because they were directed towards burdening a specific faith – the Santería. On the other hand, I observed that in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby the conservative majority of the Supreme Court guaranteed for-profit corporations the right of, based on religious reasons, not paying for health insurance coverage of certain contraceptives for their female employees. |
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