The court concludes that the government may institute such an exemption, though doesn't decide whether it must do so. So holds today's Ninth Circuit opinion in Hunter v. U.S. Dep't of Ed., decided by ...

Liberal MPs on the House justice committee backed a Bloc Québécois proposal to remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws — after the suggestion initially appeared to halt the ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency tasked with preventing and remedying employment discrimination, recently filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit, arguing that ...

NEW YORK – In a dispute over whether or not a religious exemption is warranted, a Wisconsin Catholic Charities Branch has argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that the case is “simple” given the defendant ...

The Bloc has pushed for years for the religious exemption to disappear, even tabling a bill in 2023 to that effect. At the time, the Quebec party pointed to comments by Montreal Imam Adil Charkaoui ...

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo Courtesy/U.S. General Services Administration) CHARLESTON — The ...

The ruling in the case involving a group of Catholic charities seeking tax exemptions in Wisconsin could have national ramifications. The Supreme Court appears likely to side with a group of Catholic ...

Trinity Health Grand Rapids, a hospital and health system based in Michigan, will pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it failed to properly consider an employee’s request for an exemption from ...