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  2. Conscientious objector - Wikipedia

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    A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" [1] on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion. [2] The term has also been extended to objecting to working for the military–industrial complex due to a crisis of conscience. [3]

  3. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

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    Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. 617 (2018), was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States that addressed whether owners of public accommodations can refuse certain services based on the First Amendment claims of free speech and free exercise of religion, and therefore be granted an exemption from laws ensuring non-discrimination in public ...

  4. Right to petition in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1688 Bill of Rights provides no such limitation to assembly. Under the common law, the right of an individual to petition implies the right of multiple individuals to assemble lawfully for that purpose. [11] England's implied right to assemble to petition was made an express right in the US First Amendment.

  5. Justice Sotomayor says ruling condemns LGBTQ people to ... - AOL

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    Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the ruling erroneously defines anti-LGBTQ discrimination as protected speech rather than prohibited conduct.

  6. Right to protest - Wikipedia

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    Mary Beth Tinker was given detention for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War, leading to the Tinker v. Des Moines case.. Many employers, educational institutions, [5] and professional associations [6] maintain demonstration policies that limit the rights of their members to protest, for instance by restricting them to free speech zones.

  7. Conscience clause in medicine in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Right of Conscience Rule was a set of protections for healthcare workers enacted by President George W. Bush on December 18, 2008, allowing healthcare workers to refuse care based on their personal beliefs. [8] Specifically, the rule denied federal funding to institutions that did not allow workers to refuse care that went against their ...

  8. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health - Wikipedia

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    The right to commit suicide, he added, was not a due process right protected in the Constitution. As legal scholar Susan Stefan writes: "[Justice Scalia] argued that states had the right to 'prevent, by force if necessary,' people from committing suicide, including refusing treatment when that refusal would cause the patient to die."

  9. Recusal - Wikipedia

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    The term "recuse" originates from the Latin word "recusare," meaning "to demur," or "object" reflecting the fundamental principle of rejecting participation when impartiality is in doubt. [3] The word "recuse" traces its origins to the Anglo-French term "recuser," meaning "to refuse," which itself comes from the Middle French and Latin "recusare."