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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Supreme Court Clarifies 'Undue Hardship' Standard for Religious Accommodations in the Workplace

Everyone is talking about the Supreme Court's Thursday decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions (more on that below in the "Free Minds" section). But it wasn't the only decision the Court handed down yesterday. SCOTUS also ruled in a religious freedom case we've covered previously in the Reason Roundup. The case centers on an evangelical Christian postal carrier who didn't want to work on Sundays.

Gerald Groff was employed delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, a job that didn't initially require Sunday work. But this changed after the USPS began facilitating Sunday deliveries as part of a deal with Amazon. Groff's petition for a transfer to a facility that didn't require Sunday work was granted, but in 2017 this facility began doing Sunday deliveries as well.

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