The Third Circuit held that such organizations may raise religious exemption claims, though it declined to decide (at this stage of the litigation) whether the claim would prevail on the facts of this ...

The Supreme Court appeared likely to side with a Wisconsin-based Catholic Charities group in its fight with the government over a state ruling it says "distorts" and "undermines" its mission of caring ...

The debate over vaccines is in the spotlight in Massachusetts. It centers on two proposed bills that would remove the religious exemption that some parents and guardians turn to so their children ...

Fourteenth Circuit Judge Michael Froble, seen here at a July hearing, ruled Monday afternoon in Raleigh County Circuit Court to consolidate two cases involving West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

The judge in a vaccine exemptions case that resumes this week asked lawyers to complete some homework about a central question that is also existential: How would you differentiate between religious ...

Does the right of a person’s objection to vaccinations on ostensibly religious grounds supersede the threat that poses to the public health of the general population? In this state, that question has ...

WASHINGTON — Delving into the latest in a series of religious rights cases, the Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to a claim brought by Catholic-affiliated charitable groups that they were ...

The infinite value of Christian charity took center stage at the Supreme Court Monday morning as the justices heard oral argument in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared openly doubtful on Monday about Wisconsin's refusal to exempt Catholic Charities from making payments into the state's mandatory unemployment system. Monday's case was ...

The Alabama Senate Thursday passed a bill expanding the pool of people who can claim a religious exemption from vaccines and allowing them to do so without explanation. SB 85, sponsored by Sen. Arthur ...