The Supreme Court appeared likely to side with a Wisconsin-based Catholic Charities group in its fight over a state ruling it says “undermines" its mission of caring for the sick and poor.

WASHINGTON — Delving into the latest in a series of religious rights cases, the Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to a claim brought by Catholic-affiliated charitable groups that they ...

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced a religious exemption for childhood vaccines among his first executive actions Tuesday, one day after his inauguration.

Rawlinson noted that the state originally had an exemption in its anti-discrimination law for religious nonprofit organizations, and Alexander clarified that the exemption was removed in Woods when ...

Representing Wisconsin, Assistant Attorney General Colin Roth told the justices that the state’s unemployment tax exemption was intended to address “a particular problem” – specifically, to avoid ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey has received a proposal for how to create a religious exemption for childhood vaccines. Morrisey, on the first full day of his ...

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set to make a decision regarding the tax-exempt status of organizations that do not comply with state qualifications for “religious purposes ...

But in 2016, Catholic Charities Bureau asked for a religious exemption from the tax, after an affiliate not involved in the current case won an exemption from a state trial court.

The case arises from Wisconsin, where officials said groups linked to the Catholic Church couldn’t obtain a religious exemption from the state’s unemployment assistance tax. IE 11 is not ...

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced a religious exemption for childhood vaccines among his first executive actions Tuesday, one day after his inauguration.