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DC loosens church coronavirus restrictions as Supreme Court pushes for greater religious freedom Print this article
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has revised restrictions on church gatherings after the city s Catholic archdiocese pointed to a recent Supreme Court decision in a lawsuit against her.
The orders, issued Wednesday night and which took effect Thursday, raise the city s 50-person capacity limit to a 25% church occupancy limit or a maximum of 250 people. The archdiocese sued last week, alleging that Bowser s hard cap violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because businesses were not subject to the same strictures. The archdiocese pointed to the Supreme Court s decision in a recent case,
Supreme Court rejects Kentucky religious school s appeal against coronavirus restrictions | Print this article
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Kentucky religious school challenging Gov. Andy Beshear s coronavirus restrictions.
The high court wrote in an unsigned opinion on Thursday that it rejected the case because it challenged Beshear s orders, which close all in-person learning, when they are set to expire within the next week because of Christmas break. It did not, however, discourage the school, Danville Christian Academy, or Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron from bringing the case forward again if Beshear reinstitutes the order in January. We deny the application without prejudice to the applicants or other parties seeking a new preliminary injunction if the Governor issues a school-closing order that applies in the new year, the court wrote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. â After the recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court granting an emergency petition for an injunction pending appeal on behalf of New York City synagogues and Roman Catholic churches in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo and Agudath Israel v. Cuomo, churches in Colorado, New Jersey and California have now received favorable court decisions regarding unconstitutional worship bans.
The High Court previously granted cert and vacated the lower court orders involving the emergency petition of Harvest Rock Church and Harvest International Ministry in their federal lawsuit against California Governor Gavin Newsomâs unconstitutional worship ban in light of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo. However, after the district court failed to abide by the High Courtâs instructions, Liberty Counsel filed a renewed application to the Justices on behalf of the churches asking for an injunction.
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Thomas More Society: United States Supreme Court Hands Down Religious Rights Victory for New Jersey Priest and Rabbi December 15, 2020, 5:48 pm | in
Thomas More Society Applauds Order Against Governor Murphy’s COVID Prompted Discrimination
(December 15, 2020 – Washington, DC) Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down what attorneys from the Thomas More Society are calling “a huge victory for religious freedom.” The case, pitting a New Jersey Catholic priest and Orthodox Jewish rabbi against Governor Philip Murphy’s COVID-19-related executive orders restricting houses of worship to 25% of capacity while secular businesses and schools are at 100% capacity.
The high court granted the writ of certiorari before judgment on appeal in the Third Circuit and vacated the original judgment of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denying an injunction against the restrictions to Reverend Kevin Robinso