Pipeline Company, Agency Are ‘Badly Mistaken,’ Catholic Group Says; Review Needed

(February 1, 2019, 2:22 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An order of Roman Catholic women who contend that a lower court ruling that held that the Natural Gas Act (NGA) overrides the protections of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) with regard to the construction of a pipeline to carry hydraulically fractured gas across property owned by the order, on Jan. 7 filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court contending that review is warranted because “RFRA is not an ordinary statute, and this is not an ordinary case” (Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, No. 18-548, U.S. Sup.)....