Brief of Law Professors Bruce P. Frohnen, Robert P. George, Alan J. Meese, Michael P. Moreland, Nathan B. Oman, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Rodney K. Smith, Steven D. Smith, And O. Carter Snead As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioners

Authors

John D. Adams, McGuireWoods LLP
Matthew A. Fitzgerald, McGuireWoods LLP
O. Carter Snead, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre DameFollow

Document Type

Brief

Publication Date

8-2015

Abstract

No. 15-105
Little Sister of the Poor Home for the Aged v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

From the Summary of Argument

Suppose a federal law required government officials to enter a Catholic church and use church property to distribute contraceptives and abortifacients over church’s objection. Such a law would surely burden the church’s religion, even if the government paid for the objectionable medications and compensated the church for the use of its resources. By commandeering church property, such a law would force the church to be complicit in activity to which it has serious religious objections

Comments

Amici are professors of law or jurisprudence teaching at universities in the United States, with a professional interest in the law governing religious freedom and its development in the courts. See the listing on pages 1–2, including Notre Dame Law School's O. Carter Snead.

Recommended Citation

Brief of Law Professors Bruce P. Frohnen, Robert P. George, Alan J. Meese, Michael P. Moreland, Nathan B. Oman, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Rodney K. Smith, Steven D. Smith, And O. Carter Snead as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged v. Burwell, (No. 15-105) (10th Cir. Aug. 24, 2015).