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Judge dismisses challenge to Connecticut law ending religious vaccine exemption
By Susan Haigh — January 13, 2022
(AP) — U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton said the plaintiffs failed to prove state's decision to end the exemption was “motivated by any religious animus.”
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vows to appeal face veil ruling
By Ron Csillag — February 19, 2015
TORONTO (RNS) "I believe, and I think most Canadians believe, that it is offensive that someone would hide their identity at the very moment where they are committing to join the Canadian family," said Stephen Harper.
N.Y. man pleads guilty in scheme with rabbis to violently extort divorce
By Bill Wichert — March 7, 2014
(RNS) David Hellman admitted to traveling with seven co-conspirators from New York to a New Jersey warehouse with the intention of forcing a Jewish man to give his wife a divorce document known under Jewish law as a “get.”
Court says pharmacists can’t be forced to dispense morning-after pill
By Tracy Gordon — February 22, 2012
(RNS) A federal court on Wednesday (Feb. 23) struck down a Washington state law that requires pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill even if it violates their religious beliefs. By Lauren Markoe.
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