The U.S. Supreme Court today (April 5, 2021) refused to hear two cases that could have expanded religious rights, turning away cases in which employees accused companies of violating anti-discrimination law by insufficiently accommodating requests for time off to meet religious obligations, according to the Reuters website.
The justices declined to hear appeals by two men of different Christian denominations -- a Jehovah's Witness from Tennessee and a Seventh-day Adventist from Florida -- of lower court rulings that rejected their claims of illegal religious bias.
The lower courts found that accommodations the men sought would have placed too much hardship on the employers.
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