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Samuel Alito on Jobs

Supreme Court Justice (nominated by Pres. George W. Bush 2005)

 


Supports employer right to promote without fully explaining

[In an opinion about a case about a hotel’s promotion practices being based on pretexts, Alito concluded that] one “might think the hotel’s stated reasons for promoting someone else are weak, but that this isn’t enough to show they were pretextual.”
Source: thinkprogress.org , Nov 1, 2005

Employers must accommodate religious beliefs, within reason

Case Summary: Shelton v. Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry (3d Circuit 2000)

Employee?s decision to refuse her employer?s efforts to accommodate her religious beliefs and practices opposing abortion was unjustified, warranting her termination. Alito joined the majority opinion.
-- Court upholds employee?s termination, rejecting First Amendment claims.

Source: FindLaw.com Case Summaries , Aug 10, 2000

Other Justices on Jobs: Samuel Alito on other issues:
Samuel Alito(since 2006)
Amy Coney Barrett(since 2020)
Stephen Breyer(since 1994)
Neil Gorsuch(since 2017)
Ketanji Brown Jackson(nominated 2022)
Elena Kagan(since 2010)
Brett Kavanaugh(since 2018)
John Roberts(since 2005)
Sonia Sotomayor(since 2009)
Clarence Thomas(since 1991)

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Merrick Garland(nominated 2016)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg(1993-2020)
Anthony Kennedy(1988-2018)
Antonin Scalia(1986-2016)
John Paul Stevens(1975-2010)
David Souter(1990-2009)
Sandra Day O'Connor(1981-2006)
William Rehnquist(1975-2005)

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