A U.S. appeals court ruled that a Nevada sheriff’s office must try to accommodate a Seventh-Day Adventist employee’s desire to observe the Sabbath on Saturdays. In making the recent ruling, the court overturned a 1996 lower court decision that Judy Balint’s lack of seniority could exempt the office from accommodating Sabbath observance. Jewish groups joined with a coalition of other groups in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Balint.
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