A Religious Exemption From AI?

August 4

39 mins

Episode Description

Welcome to the Napa Legal Podcast, where we discuss religious liberty from the perspective of faith-based nonprofits.

In this week's episode, Frank DeVito and Kyle Nazareth discuss the Catholic lawsuit against New York's new physician assisted death mandate, the Ninth Circuit's unanimous ruling for a Kaiser Permanente employee fired over a religious vaccine exemption, and the first known workplace religious accommodation excusing an employee from using AI.

In this episode, we discuss:

[1:20] Becket sues New York over the Medical Aid in Dying Act on behalf of four orders of religious sisters and the Diocese of Rockville Centre, challenging a law that requires objecting providers to counsel patients on assisted suicide, screen them for eligibility, and refer them out.

[18:11] The Ninth Circuit unanimously revives Mimi Weiss's Title VII claims against Kaiser, holding that notice of a religious conflict and sincerity of belief are separate questions, and that employers do not get to decide the second one.

[30:24] A Unitarian Universalist software engineer wins a religious exemption from her employer's AI mandate, and Kyle explains why Magnifica Humanitas does not say what the coverage claims it says.

Chapter markers

0:00 Intro

1:20 New York's assisted suicide mandate

3:58 Doctors must list the wrong cause of death

5:06 Carmelite Sisters v. James

7:25 Humanism without Christianity

11:12 The federal law arguments

13:04 Church autonomy and free exercise

16:07 The July 30 consent order

16:49 The lesson from Canada