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Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons, specifically to promote the observance of the Christian day of worship .
Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, are laws that restrict or ban some or all activities on specified days (most often on Sundays in the western world), particularly to promote the observance of a day of rest. [1] Such laws may restrict shopping or ban sale of certain items on specific days.
National Sunday Law may refer to: Blue laws in predominantly Christian countries; Sunday Sabbatarian ecclesiastical laws in certain national Christian denominations; National Sunday Law, a book by Seventh-day Adventist author Jan Marcussen
Texas law on when beer, wine and liquor can be bought on Sunday has changed in the past year, but liquor stores are still shuttered on holidays.
McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case that affirmed the Maryland State Supreme Court's decision that the state's Sunday closing laws did not have a religious purpose to aid religion and that the secular purpose of the legislation to set aside a day of rest and recreation did not violate the Establishment Clause.
The law will likely stay, but that isn’t so bad. Calls to reconsider the Sunday laws flare up in Germany from time to time, although contending with Catholic and Protestant church groups could ...
The future of TikTok remains murky as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to uphold a law that could ban the social media app due to national security concerns starting Sunday. But there's ...
Braunfeld v. Brown, 366 U.S. 599 (1961), was a landmark case on the issue of religious and economic liberty decided by the United States Supreme Court.In a 6–3 decision, the Court held that a Pennsylvania blue law forbidding the sale of various retail products on Sunday was not an unconstitutional interference with religion as described in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.