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The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was a cornerstone for tribes challenging the National Forest Service's plans to permit upgrades to Arizona's Snowbowl ski resort. Six tribes were involved, including the Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, and Hualapai. The tribes objected on religious grounds to the plans to use reclaimed water.
Flores, the Court again took a narrow view of the Congressional power of enforcement, striking down a provision of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that sought to forbid the states from placing burdens on religious practice in the absence of a compelling state interest in doing so.
The plaintiffs argued that the rule violated protections for religious freedom under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment and a federal law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The ...
the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000; the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993; Section 102 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), as amended, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of national origin and citizenship status as well as document abuse and retaliation under the Immigration ...
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), as originally passed by Congress in 1993 with bipartisan support, was designed to protect the people from the government imposing its will on an ...
The federal government passed a "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" in 1993, and about two dozen states have their own version. Why business groups, Democrats think the religious freedom law could ...
The court ruled that the free exercise of religion was meritorious and prevailing and that Merced was entitled under the Texas Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (TRFRA) to an injunction preventing the city of Euless, Texas from enforcing its ordinances that burdened his religious practices relating to the use of animals. [49]
The federal government passed a "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" in 1993, and about two dozen states have their own version. Democrats, businesses say the bill would hurt Iowa's ability to ...