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“The Impact of Coronavirus on Public Funding of Religious Organizations” by Adelaide Madera

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesConstitutional Law, Madera, Adelaide, October 2020, Politics, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Photo of cells by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Public Domain) A virtual conference organized in partnership with Brigham Young University Law School, Emory University Law School, Notre Dame Law School, St. John’s University School of Law, and the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. View the full video and browse all essays here.…

“COVID-19 and Restrictions on Religious Institutions: Constitutional Implications” by Kathleen A. Brady

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesBrady, Kathleen A., Christianity, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

“Prohibitions on In-Person Religious Services: Valid Under the Smith Test, No Matter Their Free Exercise Burden” by Connor Hees

Jul 28, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysConstitutional Law, Hees, Connor, July 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Image by Peter H from Pixabay As the United States nears the grim milestone of 150,000 American coronavirus deaths and cases surge in many parts of the country, a number of states are pausing or reversing their reopening plans. Many states are also weighing whether to put back in place the numerical limits on indoor…

“Right Test, Wrong Outcome: Avoiding Misuse of the Ministerial Exception in Faith-Based Schools” by Charles J. Russo & Allan G. Osborne

Jul 22, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysConstitutional Law, July 2020, Osborne, Allan G., Politics, Russo, Charles J., US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Photo by George Becker on Pexels During the closing days of its 2019-20 term, the Supreme Court’s trilogy of rulings in the companion cases of Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel, Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, and Espinoza v. Montana Department…

“Life, Liberty, & Vaccines: The Clash between the Coronavirus and Religious Freedom” by Sara Pullen Guercio

Jul 22, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesConstitutional Law, Guercio, Sara Pullen, July 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Photo by kkolosov on Pixabay This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Like most of us these days, we were sitting on the couch. My husband said grimly, “Let’s see what’s going on in the world…” and turned on the news. The…

“Born of Bigotry, Died in Religious Liberty: The Supreme Court Ends the Blaine Amendments in Empowering Parental Choice” by Charles J. Russo & William E. Thro

Jul 14, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysConstitutional Law, July 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom, Russo, Charles J., Thro, William E., US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Image by Pexels from Pixabay “The Blaine Amendment was ‘born of bigotry.”’ Reasonable people can certainly disagree over whether Chief Justice John Roberts’ forceful words in the opinion of the five-to-four judgement in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Taxation, which produced seven different opinions, was the stake through the heart of the anti-Catholic Blaine Amendments…