District judge petrese b. Tucker, a clinton appointee, rejected all of css’s arguments. · in a decision issued friday, u. s. · washington — the supreme court on thursday decided unanimously in favor of catholic social services in its lawsuit against the city of philadelphia , ruling that the city violated the group’s free. · fortunately, the majority decision was narrowly focused on philadelphia ’s contracts with foster care agencies and made no general right for taxpayer-funded foster agencies to discriminate. · city of philadelphia , which prohibited a religious foster care agency from discriminating against same-sex couples. The court unanimously voted against the city of philadelphia and in favor of. · the court based the fulton ruling on its finding that philadelphia ’ s anti-discrimination ordinance failed the test of “general applicability” because it left room for case-by-case exceptions by city officials. · a taxpayer-funded foster care agency, catholic social services (css), is suing the city of philadelphia , claiming the u. s. Constitution gives it the right to avoid the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance and reject same-sex couples as foster parents. Supreme court unanimously ruled thursday that philadelphia could not cancel a contract with a catholic foster agency over its refusal to let same-sex couples adopt. This included claims that philadelphia had violated css’s rights to.

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