Korte & Luitjohan Contractors Inc. closing only on Roman Catholic Holidays. All others can go to hell or anywhere else to bet but Nassau OTB. NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 can also go to hell just like NYC OTB which went to hell and went bankrupt as well. No more double time for working on Sundays.
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Court Considers Religion,
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Corporations, like people, have free-speech rights, according to the Supreme Court.But do they have religious rights, too?
A ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago late last month has law professors buzzing about a possible expansion of "corporate personhood," the idea that companies share some legal rights and protections with in-the-flesh people.
The case concerns a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health-care overhaul law, that requires companies to carry insurance for their employees that includes birth-control services.
The Roman Catholic owners of Illinois construction company Korte & Luitjohan Contractors Inc. sued the federal government over the contraceptive mandate, arguing that it violates their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which guards against laws that substantially burden a person's free exercise of religion. Company owners Cyril and Jane Korte also claimed that their religious rights under the First Amendment were violated.
The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling on Dec. 30, blocked the provision from taking effect while the court considers the Kortes' case in full.
The Seventh Circuit wasn't the first court to press pause on the contraceptive mandate while challenges wend through the courts, but one line in the order stood out. "That the Kortes operate their business in the corporate form is not dispositive of their claim," the majority wrote. The court cited Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, the 2010 decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend money to influence political campaigns.
In Korte v. Sebelius the Seventh Circuit suggested that corporations could have rights under the religious-freedom act, and by extension, under the First Amendment.
Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, said the majority's reasoning clearly would apply to religious institutions, such as universities and hospitals. But he said he doubted whether the contraceptive mandate represented a "substantial burden" on a for-profit corporation whose business isn't part of the owners' religious calling.
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Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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