Document Type
Brief
Case Name
Lisette Balint v. Carson City, Nevada
Publication Date
11-17-1998
Abstract
No. 96-17342
Lisette Balint v. Carson City, Nevada
On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
No. CV-N-96-00141-HDM
From the Argument
In Balint v. Carson City, Nevada, 144 F.3d 1225, 1229 (9th Cir. 1998), a panel of this Court held that an employer who uses an "existing, bona fide seniority-based shift-bidding system" is never required to accommodate an employee's religious needs, no matter how great the burden that system imposes on an employee's faith or how slight the burden an accommodation would impose on the employer. This ruling, if sustained, would insulate the basest and most blatant religious discrimination from the protections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq.
Recommended Citation
Rapps, Dennis; Zwiebel, David; Diament, Nathan; Lewin, Nathan; and Garnett, Richard W., "Brief Amicus Curiae of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs ("COLPA"), Agudath Israel of America, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, et al." (1998). Court Briefs. 130.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/sct_briefs/130
Comments
The National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs ("COLPA") is a voluntary association of attorneys and social scientists organized to combat all forms of religious prejudice and discrimination and to represent the position of the Orthodox Jewish community on matters of public concern.
This brief is also joined by the Agudath Israel of America, Agudath Harabonim of the United States and Canada, National Council of Young Israel, Torah Umesorah National Society of Hebrew Day Schools, Rabbinical Council of America, The Rabbinical Alliance of America, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.