February 28, 2023
Conservative lawmakers led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a coalition of 22 Republican state attorneys general on Tuesday joined a chorus urging the U.S. Supreme Court to scuttle a decades-old test for measuring the burden of a religious accommodation on an employer.
February 24, 2023
Two religious advocacy groups told the U.S. Supreme Court it should do away with a decades-old test for measuring the burden of a religious accommodation on an employer, arguing that the precedent allows businesses to openly discriminate against Jewish and Muslim people.
February 21, 2023
A Christian ex-mail carrier who claimed the U.S. Postal Service unlawfully punished him for not working on Sundays urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a long-standing test for measuring the burden of a religious accommodation on an employer, arguing Tuesday the standard nullifies Title VII's religious protections.
January 31, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it set an April date to hear oral arguments in a case that could upend an employer-friendly precedent governing when employers have to accommodate religious workers.
January 13, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted a case Friday from a Christian ex-postal worker who claimed he was unlawfully punished for not working on Sundays, giving the justices a chance to reevaluate a long-standing test for determining whether granting a worker's religious accommodation request would be too burdensome for employers.
November 29, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice said the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't review a Third Circuit ruling that a Christian former mail carrier put an unfair burden on the employer by requesting every Sunday off, arguing that this isn't the right case to review the test for whether an accommodation is too onerous.
September 29, 2022
An ex-postal worker's push to have the U.S. Supreme Court rethink its workplace religious accommodation test and several requests for the justices to clarify their Title IX jurisprudence headline the list of discrimination law-related petitions that the high court will consider when its new term kicks off.