COVID Restrictions on Religious Gatherings: Assessing the Supreme Court’s Ruling Webinar Written by: December 28, 2020 “A federal gathering of states can have its strengths, but also its weakness,” stated Nicholas Miller at the outset of the most recent Religion and the Law Forum from Loma Linda University’s School of Religion, held on December 12, 2020. “Perhaps a national pandemic shows those weaknesses because we don't really have a national plan,” he continued. “In responding to this pandemic each state has the responsibility to set down its own guidelines.” This webinar, sponsored by the Andrews University International Religious Liberty Institute, Loma Linda University School of Religion's Religion and the Law Forum, and the Church State Council — the education, advocacy and legal services ministry of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, centered around some of the unique intersections of law and religion that have occurred because of the COVID-19 pandemic.