Legal Scholars File Brief in Case in Which the Department of Justice Rejects Religious Liberty Rights of Non-Profit That Provides Safe Space to Injection Drug Users

Authors

Law, Rights, and Religion Project, Columbia Law School

Project

Law, Rights, and Religion Project

Document Type

Document

Publication Date

7-2019

Abstract

Nationally recognized law professors with expertise in religious liberty law filed an amicus brief in a case in which the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to shut down safe-injection sites. The case focuses on the work of a Philadelphia-based nonprofit, Safehouse, a faith-based non-profit that provides people who inject drugs with sterile equipment to minimize the spread of blood-borne illnesses, and to support harm reduction for persons who use injectable drugs.

Disciplines

Law | Religion Law

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Law, Rights, and Religion Project, Legal Scholars File Brief in Case in Which the Department of Justice Rejects Religious Liberty Rights of Non-Profit That Provides Safe Space to Injection Drug Users, (2019).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/gender_sexuality_law/32