The Supreme Court said it will consider whether to strengthen protections for workers who say their employers fail to accommodate their religious practices. Eight new cases, including one focused on the Sabbath, should complete current term.
The court’s decision to take the case came as the justices seemed to fill out their docket for the term, which usually runs through June. The court took eight new cases, including one that will have justices return to the question of how to assess whether statements made online are “true threats” that are not protected by the First Amendment.The religious accommodation case could provide yet another example of how the Roberts court has been overwhelmingly protective of religious rights.
Groff was able to avoid Sunday shifts for years, but resigned in 2019 when it appeared that would no longer be possible. Other workers complained Groff’s refusal to work on Sundays meant more unwanted shifts for them, and one filed a complaint. Groff filed suit after resigning, but lost in federal district court and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia.
Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar, representing the Postal Service, had advised the court to pass on the case.Groff “would not be entitled to relief under any plausible standard for ‘undue hardship,’” Prelogar told the justices in a brief. The new case concerns Billy Raymond Counterman, who besieged professional musician Coles Whalen with messages that she found threatening for two years. The musician, who did not know Counterman, never responded and blocked Counterman, but he friended Whalen under other names to continue the messages.
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