Scotus ruling on church gatherings

    • What did the court's ruling mean for the church?

      discussing the court’s ruling, which was issued by telephone, but it appears that the judge viewed the government as having a compelling interest in responding to “a severe public health crisis,” and noted that the church had alternative methods of worship, such as live-streaming its services.


    • Does a state treat religious conduct as a secular analogue?

      Newsom, 592 U. S. ___ (2021) (KAGAN, J., dissenting). The First Amendment requires that a State treat religious conduct as well as the State treats comparable secular conduct. Some- times finding the right secular analogue may raise hard questions.


    • Can a government order prevent a church from having drive-through services?

      that the church had alternative methods of worship, such as live-streaming its services. On the other hand, as the Kentucky ruling demonstrates, government orders may not satisfy strict scrutiny, particularly if an order prevents methods of gathering such as drive-through services that are allowed for non-religious



    • [PDF File]Supreme Court Decision Regarding Restrictions on Church ...

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      The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Ninth Circuit had both affirmed preliminary rulings in favor of the government, rejecting churches’ requests for preliminary injunctions that would have prevented the two states from enforcing their orders limiting mass gatherings.




    • When it comes to reopening churches in the pandemic, Supreme ...

      all secular gatherings in homes to three households, it has complied with the First Amendment. And the State does exactly that: It has adopted a blanket restriction on at-home gatherings of all kinds, religious and secular alike. California need not, as t he . per curiam. insists, treat at -home religious gatherings the same as hardware stores ...


    • UPDATE: Banning Religious Assemblies to Stop the Spread of ...

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    • [PDF File]SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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      nearby church or synagogue would be prohibited from al-lowing more than 10 or 25 people inside for a worship ser-vice. And the Governor has stated that factories and schools have contributed to the spread of COVID–19, id., Exh. H, at 3; App. to Application in No. 20A90, pp. 98, 100, but they are treated less harshly than the Diocese’s


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