Stores await view of Supreme Court in sabbath law case.

From: WWD | Date: March 13, 1985| Author: Greene, Jan | Copyright information

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Retailers may be caught up this year in a potential wave of U.S. Supreme Court decisions changing the interpretation of religious constitutional rights, especially that to be handed down in a case involving the right of employees not to work on their Sabbath day.

The Reagan administration and religious groups are warning of a "devastating impact" if the Sabbath right is not upheld, while employer see the Sabbath law as unfair to nonreligious workers....

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