Bad news in Supreme Court’s ruling on behalf of religious liberty
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Bad News in Supreme Court Ruling
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 8:52 AM
The Bad News in the Supreme Court’s Recent Ruling on Behalf of Religious Liberty
It was good to see the Supreme Court rule yet again in favor of religious liberty in the latest California case to reach the nation’s highest court. Yet the fact that the ruling was only 5-4, not to mention some of the reasoning in the dissenting opinion, gives real cause for concern. This should not have been a close vote at all. Instead, it should have been a slam dunk for religious freedoms.
As reported on Forbes, “The Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 margin late Friday that California s coronavirus-related restrictions on gathering in private homes violated constitutional rights on the free exercise of religion, the latest ruling from the high court that prohibits authorities from enforcing limits on religious services.”
On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court held in
Ford Motor
Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court that Montana
and Minnesota courts could exercise jurisdiction over the global
auto manufacturer for certain in-state vehicle accidents, even if
Ford sold, designed, and manufactured the allegedly defective
automobiles outside those forums.
1 The
Ford
decision sparked immediate questions about the direction of the
Court s personal jurisdiction jurisprudence, especially after a
decade of decisions restricting the exercise of jurisdiction over
out-of-state defendants. Does
Ford signal a return to the
days of expansive jurisdiction or was it simply a tried-and-true
application of existing principles? In other words, how worried
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