Jane Scharl, writing for the “Alliance Defending Freedom” website blogs about 5 Supreme Court cases to watch in 2016.
Jane has divided the five cases into 3 categories:
Religious Freedom;3 cases, Life;1 case, Freedom of Conscience;1 case
The Religious Freedom Cases:
- Zubik v. Burwell – The Obamacare HHS Mandate requires employers, regardless of their convictions, to provide abortion-inducing drugs to employees through their health plans… (read more by clicking on the article below)
- Stormans v. Wiesman – ADF clients, the Stormans, who own a grocery store in Washington State, and Margo Thelen and Rhonda Mesler, two pharmacists, have asked the Supreme Court to review a ruling from the Ninth Circuit, which upholds a Washington State law forcing pharmacies and pharmacists to dispense abortion-inducing medication, despite their deeply-held beliefs. Whereas pharmacists and stores are allowed to refer patients to other pharmacies for many other reasons, the law targets religious convictions in an attempt to force people to violate their consciences through coercion. clicking on the article below)
- Friedfrichs v. California Teachers Association – The teachers are being forced by the government to pay union dues that go, at least in part, to pay for the union’s political speech. The teachers disagree with the political positions that the union takes and do not want to support the union’s political speech. But they cannot opt out.. (read more by clicking on the article below)
Freedom of Conscience:
- Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley – The oft-touted “separation of church and state” is a sensitive subject, but it’s going to get serious consideration when the Supreme Court hears the case Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley. In this case, the State of Missouri excluded a church-run pre-school and daycare center from a program that provides recycled tires for school playground surfaces—simply because the school is operated by a church…(read more by clicking on the article below)
Life:
- Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole – In 2013– Legislators in Texas passed a law (Texas HB2) requiring abortionists to comply with the same health and safety standards as other outpatient medical providers. These health and safety standards would require abortion centers to meet the standards of a typical outpatient operating room, including having hallways wide enough for gurneys and proper sterilization procedures for instruments. The law also requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion center in case the woman has to seek hospital care because of post-abortion complications…(read more by clicking on the article below)
http://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2016/01/25/5-cases-to-watch-at-the-supreme-court-in-2016