Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) requires employers to accommodate any employee’s sincerely held religious beliefs unless accommodation would result in an undue hardship ...

A recent decision of the Michigan Court of Appeals illustrates how the presumption of undue influence operates in a will contest when there is no eyewitness evidence of undue influence. In re Jones ...

Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.) said Tuesday that President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s involvements in efforts to prosecute members of Congress who participated in the “illegal orders” ...

The potential for undue influence has become increasingly significant in this era of digital interconnectivity. Undue influence can distort our perceptions, manipulate our decisions, and sometimes ...

In the religious accommodation context an employer need only show that the accommodation would require it to incur more than a "de minimis cost." This limited standard may allow many employers to ...

My colleague Sherif Girgis passed along these thoughts on Dobbs, which I'm posting with his permission. Since the current Court is more formalist than this (or any other) middle ground would allow, ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Maya Manian of the University of San Francisco School of Law discusses the debate over abortion laws and how the future of a woman’s right to choose resides with the Supreme ...

It seems that every will contest includes a claim of undue influence along with the more standard claims of lack of testamentary capacity and lack of due execution. But, undue influence is certainly ...

Undue influence from family members of patients with advanced cancer remains a serious ethical problem in end-of-life decision making. Despite the wealth of articles discussing the problem of undue ...

A woman in her 70s has a sizable estate acquired from a lifetime of hard work and smart investments. Lonely and overly trusting, she falls prey to a much younger man who persuades her to sign over her ...