Showing posts with label Seventh Day Adventist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seventh Day Adventist. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

7th Day Adventists Sue Maryland Over Narrow Interpretation of Fair Employment Practices Act Exemption

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Last week, the Seventh Day Adventist Church filed suit against officials and members of the Maryland Civil Rights Commission challenging as ...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

DOJ Enters Consent Decree with Lansing, MI In Suit Over Firing of 7th Day Adventist Employee

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has entered into a consent decree with the city of Lansing, Michigan to settle a...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Alabama High School Athletic Association Changes Rules To Accommodate Sabbath Observance

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1819 News reports that yesterday the Alabama High School Athletic Association voted to amend its rules to accommodate religious requests fo...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Deprives Civil Court Of Jurisdiction Over Seventh-Day Adventist Church Dispute

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In In re Texas Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists ,  (TX App, July 21, 2022), a Texas state appellate court held that the eccleisastical a...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

DOJ Sues City For Failure To Accommodate Seventh Day Adventist Employee

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A Title VII lawsuit was filed last week by the Justice Department on behalf of a newly-hired Seventh Day Adventist detention officer against...
Thursday, May 05, 2022

Adventist School Sues Over Refusal Of Tournament To Accommodate Its Sabbath Observance

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Suit was filed this week in an Alabama federal district court against the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) by the Seventh Da...
Friday, April 08, 2022

Seventh Day Adventist Can Proceed With Title VII Suit

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In Weston v. Sears , (SD OH, April 5, 2022), an Ohio federal magistrate judge recommended that plaintiff, a Seventh Day Adventist, be permit...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Florida Hotel Settles EEOC Suit On Behalf Of 7th Day Adventist For $99,000

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EEOC announced this week that a Sunny Isles Beach, Florida resort hotel, Noble House Solé, has agreed to settle a religious discrimination ...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Seventh Day Adventist Can Sue Over Forced Sedation

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In Snyder v. Robinson , (D ID, Dec. 1, 2021), an Idaho federal district court in its initial screening of an in forma pauperis  lawsuit conc...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

9th Circuit: BIA Should Consider Evangelical Christians Separately From All Christians In Assessing Deportation Risk

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In Nababan v. Garland ,  (9th Cir., Nov. 23, 2021), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals remanded to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Summary Judgment Denied To Plaintiffs Challenging Refusal of High School Tournament To Accommodate Sabbath Observance

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In Chung v. Washington Interscholastic Activities Association ,  (WD WA, May 10, 2021), five current and former high school students sued th...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Seventh Day Adventist Loses Failure To Accommodate Claim

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In Staple v. School Board of Broward County, Florida , (SD FL, April 30, 2021), a Florida federal district court dismissed a Seventh Day Adv...
Monday, April 05, 2021

Supreme Court Denies Review In Cases Seeking To Overturn Hardison's Interpretation Of Title VII

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in two Title VII religious discrimination cases. ( Order List ). In both, petitioners were asking...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

EEOC Sues On Behalf of Seventh Day Adventist Hotel Employee

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EEOC announced yesterday that it has filed a religious discrimination suit against a Florida resort hotel, Noble House Solé. The suit alleg...
Friday, February 19, 2021

EEOC Lawsuit On Behalf of Fired Seventh Day Adventist Employee Settled

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The EEOC announced this week that PepsiCo subsidiary Frito-Lay, Inc. has agreed to a 3-year consent decree requiring it to pay $50,000 to s...
Friday, September 25, 2020

EEOC Sues On Behalf of Seventh Day Adventist

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 The EEOC announced yesterday that it has filed suit in a Texas federal district court against Quest Diagnostics for refusing to accommodat...
Friday, September 18, 2020

EEOC Sues Over Failure To Accommodate Seventh Day Adventist

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The EEOC announced this week that it has filed a Title VII lawsuit against Texas-based Frito-Lay, Inc. for failing to accommodate the relig...
Friday, February 07, 2020

Fruit Company Settles Suit Over Refusal To Accommodate Sevent Day Adventist

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The EEOC announced yesterday that the North Carolina-based Cottle Strawberry Nursery has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit filed a...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Russian Court Liberalizes Allowed Religious Use of Residences

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Forum 18 reports this week on a November 2019 decision by Russia's Constitutional Court liberalizing the permissible religious uses of ...
Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Doctor Sues Over Hospital's Limits On Providing Aid-In-Dying Medications

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Last month, a doctor and her terminally ill patient filed a lawsuit in a Colorado state court against Centura Health's St. Anthony Hospi...