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but the Supreme Court is thinking that maybe two sets of laws or more might govern the country. Supreme Court Emergency Docket Asked to Protect Right to Use Religious Courts A state court has ordered an Orthodox Jew to demand that a rabbinical court reverse a religious ruling. National Review By Dan McLaughlin September 23, 2026 The use of religious tribunals to settle disputes that might otherwise be heard in civil courts has long been a fault line in systems of civil law.

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• In more modern times, when the government's courts are civil, we see instead controversies arise when litigants want to use the religious courts — or feel compelled by their religious communities to do so.
• [...] he use of religious tribunals to settle disputes that might otherwise be heard in civil courts has long been a fault line in systems of civil law.

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The very structure of Anglo-American law presumes a sometimes-abstruse division between the spheres of law and equity that has roots in medieval England, where the chancery courts (while ruling in the king's name) were often de facto religious tribunals.