Roman Catholic Sisters: Supreme Court Should Hear Fracking Pipeline Case

(November 20, 2018, 2:33 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An order of Roman Catholic women on Oct. 31 filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court contending that a lower court incorrectly ruled that the Natural Gas Act (NGA) overrides the protections afforded by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) with regard to the construction of a pipeline to carry hydraulically fractured natural gas through property owned by the order (Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, No. 18-548, U.S. Sup.)....

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