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24 May 2022, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Italy, (ECHR, May 19, 2022), the European Court of Human Rights in a 5-2 Chamber Judgment upheld an Italian court's order in a custody case in which an 8-year old's mother who was a nominal Catholic, and who had the daughter enrolled in catechism classes, objected to the girl's father involving her in his Jehovah's Witness religion. [read post]
9 May 2013, 8:59 am by Howard Friedman
The Court is not aware of a single instance in which any Jehovah’s Witness has been charged or convicted of a crime while expressing his or her religious beliefs. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
 The Jehovah's Witnesses say this has prevented them from entering neighborhoods to engage in religious proselytizing. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 1:34 am by Frank Cranmer
The Production Order represents a balancing of the competing interests, and I conclude that the infringement on the congregational elders’ religious freedoms that results from the Production Order is proportionate” [156]. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 6:15 am
Eventually a court ordered blood transfusions, over Bethany's objections. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
 The court held that no evidence had been presented to the jury showing that the employer knew or reasonably should have known that her refusal was based on the aide's Jehovah's Witness religious beliefs. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 3:09 pm by Rebecca Jeschke
Judge Blocks Religious Group’s Quest to Unmask Online CriticSan Francisco – A Reddit commenter has won their fight to stay anonymous after facing an improper copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses. [read post]
18 Feb 2014, 8:12 am by Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle
  Accordingly, Cutter instructs courts to interpret RLUIPA so as not “to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution’s need to maintain order and safety. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 4:21 am by Howard Friedman
The country's Religious a\Affairs Committee has reaffirmed the 2009 ban on children taking part in the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 6:25 am
In Matter of Brooklyn Assembly Halls of Jehovah's Witnesses, Inc. v Department of Envtl. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 8:19 am
From the Globe and Mail comes this interesting story highlighting a standard law and religion issue: the conflict between the law's protection of the best interests of the child and the spiritual interests of some religionists -- in this case, and most commonly, Jehovah's Witnesses -- for whom blood transfusions are unacceptable for religious reasons. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”[3]The Federalist extolls American religious unity as a basis for maintaining and deepening the American union. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 11:25 pm
Last September, the hospital convinced an Irish court to issue an emergency order permitting it to give a life-saving blood transfusion to a Jehovah's Witness who had lost blood in childbirth. [read post]
19 May 2010, 6:53 am by admin
Upon attending Selly Oak Hospital, Joshua, who was a Jehovah's Witness, allegedly instructed doctors not to perform a blood transfusion on him, which was necessary in order to ensure his survival. [read post]
8 Apr 2021, 2:57 pm by Brad Steffen
The appeal could have established a different standard that employers must follow in order to accommodate the religious beliefs of workers. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 6:27 am
As a Jehovah Witness, his religious belief was that he did not work on any part of product that could be used as weapon of war. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 3:27 pm by Eric Rassbach and Hannah Smith
Obergefell likewise recognized that, for millions of people, marriage “is sacred” and forms “a keystone of our social order. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
., April 3, 2018), an Arizona state appeals court invalidated the "hot line" procedure that hospitals in Maricopa County use to obtain emergency orders to treat minors over the religious or other objections of their parents. [read post]