Samantha Elauf: Supreme Court Case

Imagine that you apply for a job. You have the requirements, even more than the necessary requirements, but you are turned away because you do not fit the looks that they have. Because of your religious wear, it causes a problem with “the look,” that the store is trying to achieve. This case ran through multiple courts and it eventually reached a decision. But since the procedure to come towards a conclusion took so long that there were multiple judgments throughout the full case.
The reason that this case came to be was because of a young girl by the name of Samantha Elauf. She was applying for a job at an Abercrombie and Fitch store but was turned away because of her religion wear. Samantha is a practicing Muslim and wears the natural headscarf. But since her headscarf, …show more content…
It started in the District Court, the Tenth Circuit. Where in this court, Abercrombie and Fitch Stores, won the judgment. Now Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the court. According to a concurring opinion written my Justice Alito, the court had to interpret the meaning behind religion. Since religion was said twice in the case with different implications behind it led to further interpretation. As stated in the concurring opinion, the rule is "When these two provisions are put together the following rule...results: An employer may not take an adverse employment action against an applicant or employee because of any aspect of that individual's religious observance or practice unless the employer demonstrates that it is unable to reasonably accommodate that observance or practice without undue hardship" (Equal Employment Opportunity v. Abercrombie and Fitch, 2015, p. 1 (Alito, J. concurring)). Justice Alito points out that even if in Elauf was to wear a scarf for other reason Abercrombie would still be held accountable for their actions. The accouterment does not allow discrimination of any