The Tennessee Courtroom of Appeals has cleared the best way for a lawsuit difficult a state regulation that permits child-placing businesses to disclaim service to hopeful adoptive dad and mom based mostly on non secular beliefs.
In a majority opinion written by Decide Andy D. Bennett Jr. on August 24, the court docket reversed a three-judge panel on the trial court docket that sided with a personal child-placing facility that refused to serve a hopeful adoptive couple as a result of they didn’t share their Jewish religion.