Bench Memos

Law & the Courts

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 22

2019—A Third Circuit panel rules in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia that the city of Philadelphia lawfully refused to contract with a Catholic provider of foster-care services unless that provider agreed to certify same-sex couples as foster parents. Two years later, a unanimous Supreme Court will rule that the city’s refusal violated the provider’s Free Exercise rights under the First Amendment.

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