Legal Studies and Business Ethics Papers
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
2017
Publication Source
Law, Religion and Health in the United States
Start Page
203
Last Page
214
DOI
10.1017/9781316691274.020
Abstract
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.1 inaugurated an unprecedented deference to religious challenges to secular laws,2 which Zubik v. Burwell neither retrenched nor replace.3 On the Court's highly deferential stance, complicity claims seem to know no bounds: just so long as the objector thinks himself complicit in an act his religion opposes, the Court will conclude that the challenged legal requirement substantially burdens his religious exercise.4 The result is a set of exemptions of Court-imposed negotiations based on assertions of complicity that many courts and commentators find far-fetched, and perhaps even fantastical.5
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This material has been published in Law, Religion and Health in the United States edited by Cohen, I.G., Lynch, H., & Sepper, E. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press.
Recommended Citation
Sepinwall, A.J. (2017). Conscientious Objection, Complicity, and Accommodation. In Cohen, I.G., Lynch, H., & Sepper, E. (Eds.), Law, Religion and Health in the United States, 203-214. Cambridge University Press.
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Date Posted:28 June 2018