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Justice Samuel Alito appears eager to overturn 50-year-old precedent in favor of Christian postal worker who refused to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays

The majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn a decades-old legal precedent — one that has long set the rules for how far employers must go to accommodate their employees’ religious practices in the workplace.

The justices heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Gerald E. Groff, an evangelical Christian postal worker who says his religious freedom was violated when he was forced to surrender his job as the only means of avoiding delivering Amazon packages on weekends. Groff’s lawyers urged the justices to overrule the 1977 landmark case of Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, which interpreted the requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for religious accommodations in employment.

In that case, the Supreme Court held that employers could not fire workers for practicing their religion unless the employer can show that accommodating the religious practice would pose an “undue hardship” on the employer that would require more than a minimal cost.

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Prelogar told the justices she has “great attachment” to the body of law developed after Hardison on which many employers have long relied to shape their employment policies. She urged the Court not to “just throw it up for grabs” and rule to make well-settled precedent irrelevant for employers to understand their obligations to employees.

Alito, though, did not appear convinced.



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