{"id":97506,"date":"2020-12-11T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97506"},"modified":"2020-12-10T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T00:19:20","slug":"deseret-news-supreme-court-rules-that-religious-freedom-law-allows-for-monetary-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97506","title":{"rendered":"(Deseret News) Supreme Court rules that religious freedom law allows for monetary damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"kc6OPY\">Federal employees who violate religious freedom protections can now be held liable for monetary damages they cause after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the law allows people of faith to seek financial relief.<\/p>\n<p id=\"osxWyY\">Money is \u201cthe only form of relief that can remedy some &#8230; violations,\u201d wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/19-71_qol1.pdf\">unanimous decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"GGHwcu\">Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in the case because oral arguments took place before her Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/indepth\/2020\/12\/10\/22167568\/supreme-court-muslim-fbi-no-fly-list-religious-freedom-restoration-act-money-damages\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Supreme Court rules that religious freedom law allows for monetary damages <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GvwpT3bXsy\">https:\/\/t.co\/GvwpT3bXsy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ABRIsA6KLC\">pic.twitter.com\/ABRIsA6KLC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kelsey Dallas (@kelsey_dallas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelsey_dallas\/status\/1337106693465976833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal employees who violate religious freedom protections can now be held liable for monetary damages they cause after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the law allows people of faith to seek financial relief. Money is \u201cthe only form of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97506\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,114,91,108,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-personal-finance-investing","category-religion-culture","category-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97510,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97506\/revisions\/97510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}