Judge Cites Hobby Lobby To Excuse Fundamentalist Mormon From Child Labor Testimony
Less than three months after
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned about the widespread repercussions of the Supreme Court’s majority decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a federal judge in Utah has cited
the controversial ruling in his
decision to excuse a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from testifying in a child labor investigation.
Since 2012, the Department of Labor has been investigating the Mormon sect
over allegations that church leaders ordered children to be removed from school to harvest pecans on a private ranch, without pay, for up to eight hours a day.