Federal Managers Face Liability Exposure Under RFRA

Across all agencies, federal managers can be sued in their personal capacity for actions taken in the scope of their employment — a fact that not all federal managers are aware of. One often-overlooked civil liability exposure is under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993, which holds that all federal employees can be sued under this Act for claims that their work "substantially burden[ed] a person's exercise of religion."