{"id":4990,"date":"2010-10-31T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2010-10-31T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:30:46","slug":"trucker-demands-religious-accommodation-for-refusal-to-haul-alcohol-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/trucker-demands-religious-accommodation-for-refusal-to-haul-alcohol-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucker demands religious accommodation for refusal to haul alcohol, tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2010\/10\/trucker-demands-religious-accommodation-for-refusal-to-haul-alcohol-tobacco\/\">Overlawyered<\/a><\/em>] <\/p>\n<p>Age of accommodation, cont&#8217;d: &#8220;in Reedy v. Schneider National, Inc. (E.D. Pa. filed Oct. 15, 2010). Vasant Reddy says that he has &#8216;a sincerely held religious belief that he cannot consume, possess, or transport alcohol or tobacco,&#8217; and that he informed Schneider National of this. &#8230;Nonetheless, he says, he was ordered to transport a load with alcohol, and was fired because he refused to transport it.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/10\/25\/does-trucking-company-have-a-legal-duty-to-accommodate-muslim-employees-religious-objections-to-transporting-alcohol-or-tobacco\/\">Eugene Volokh<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> In the <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2010\/10\/trucker-demands-religious-accommodation-for-refusal-to-haul-alcohol-tobacco\/\">original post<\/a>, I purposely did not mention the complainant&#8217;s religion (Muslim, per the report.) One may surmise that some other devout persons might also sincerely object to transporting alcohol, and the law&#8217;s response should be consistent regardless of which system of religious belief undergirds the objection. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[cross-posted from Overlawyered] Age of accommodation, cont&#8217;d: &#8220;in Reedy v. Schneider National, Inc. (E.D. Pa. filed Oct. 15, 2010). Vasant Reddy says that he has &#8216;a sincerely held religious belief that he cannot consume, possess, or transport alcohol or tobacco,&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/trucker-demands-religious-accommodation-for-refusal-to-haul-alcohol-tobacco\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}