Religious Clauses

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Free Exercise in a Pandemic
Zalman Rothschild
Zalman Rothschild is a law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a Nonresident Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, and Faculty at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. from New York University, and an M.A. from Yeshiva University.

The author wishes to thank Rick Garnett and Zachary David for helpful comments.

It was only a matter of time before the Supreme Court would have to issue a decision on a church’s challenge to a state’s stay-at-home orders.

COVID-19 Free Exercise Pandemic Religious Clauses
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Clarifying and Reframing the “Ministerial Exception”
Tyler B. Lindley
B.S. 2018, Brigham Young University; J.D. Candidate 2021, The University of Chicago Law School.

For helpful feedback and discussion, I thank Geoffrey Stone, Douglas Baird, Rob Barthelmess, Jonathan Acevedo, Addison Bennett, Parag Dharmavarapu, and The University of Chicago Law Review. I would also like to thank my wife, Katrina Lindley, for her indispensable discussion and support.

This term, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear and consider Kristin Biel’s case.

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