Major US Supreme Court Cases on the Exercise of Religious Freedom

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https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-50.1.2022.61013.579-603

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Fundamental rights, religious freedom, free exercise clause

Abstract

I studied 02 SCOTUS cases concerning the exercise of religious freedom. I looked into primary sources, transcribing their main arguments. The goal was to describe the Court’s approach to laws that burden the exercise of a particular religion. I noticed that in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, city ordinances prohibiting animal sacrifice were unanimously considered void, especially because they were directed towards burdening a specific faith – the Santería. On the other hand, I observed that in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby the conservative majority of the Supreme Court guaranteed for-profit corporations the right of, based on religious reasons, not paying for health insurance coverage of certain contraceptives for their female employees.

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  • Raphael Rego Borges Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia

    Doutor, Mestre e Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal da Bahia. Professor efetivo de Direito Civil na Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia. Research Assistant (2018-2019) e atualmente pesquisador no Health Law Centre da University of Ottawa - Canadá. 

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2022-12-16

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Vol. 50 No. 1 (2022): Journal of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Uberlândia

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Major US Supreme Court Cases on the Exercise of Religious Freedom. (2022). Journal of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Uberlândia, 50(1), 579-603. https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-50.1.2022.61013.579-603