July 07, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court closed out its recent term with a flurry of blockbuster decisions and orders covering issues such as religious worker accommodations and affirmative action that experts say will reverberate for years to come. Here, Law360 looks at four issues to watch in the second half of 2023 as courts and companies digest those landmark rulings.
June 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision Thursday to revive a Christian ex-mail carrier's suit makes it tougher for employers to justify denying religious accommodations and opens the door to complicated legal questions down the line, experts said.
June 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court upended the U.S. Postal Service's win in a former mail carrier's religious discrimination suit Thursday, clarifying a long-standing test for measuring the burden that religious accommodations pose on employers.
April 18, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed open Tuesday to taking a Christian ex-postal worker up on his invitation to scrap a long-standing, employer-friendly test for measuring the burden that granting a religious accommodation puts on an employer, but some justices appeared reluctant to create a new standard.
April 17, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a Christian former U.S. Postal Worker's request to upend a nearly half-century-old precedent that gives employers wide berth to deny religious accommodations.
April 14, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its final oral argument session of the term this coming week with a major showdown between whistleblowers and the False Claims Act defense bar, along with a case examining investor class actions stemming from a novel way for companies to go public. Here, Law360 highlights what to expect.
April 10, 2023
A Christian former mail carrier pushed the U.S. Supreme Court to replace a long-standing test for measuring the burden of a religious accommodation on an employer, arguing that the U.S. Postal Service's suggested clarification of the standard still falls short of upholding federal religious protections.
March 31, 2023
The AFL-CIO, a coalition of 10 Democratic state attorneys general and several other groups lodged briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a former U.S. Postal Service employee's bid to eliminate a decades-old standard for measuring the burden of a religious accommodation on an employer.
March 27, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court should reject a bid to knock down a legal standard allowing employers to deny religious accommodations if they substantially burden business, the U.S. Postal Service argued, fighting a challenge from an ex-employee who said he was made to work Sundays despite his religious beliefs.
March 07, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon raise the bar employers must meet to convince judges that workers' faith-based accommodation requests are too burdensome, a step lawyers said would make it harder for companies to defend religious employees' challenges to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.