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Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022), is a landmark decision [1] by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.
The nation’s high court on Monday ruled in favor of Joseph Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at a public high school in Bremerton, Wash., who was suspended by the school district for ...
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I've reviewed the various opinions the Court issued in American Legion, and my confidence in my previous comment--and Sotomayor's characterization of the state of play of Lemon prior to Kennedy--is bolstered. it looks like a strong case for saying the Court stopped shy in American Legion of overruling Lemon (which therefore makes Kennedy the ...
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Bremerton School District explicitly overruled Lemon v. Kurtzman? SoupI 15:37, 27 June 2022 (UTC) Kennedy repudiated the Lemon Test but did not overrule Lemon v. Kurtzman. The Lemon decision was about various forms of public assistance to private schools, including religious schools. This was not at issue in Kennedy, so it could overrule Lemon.
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The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-141, 107 Stat. 1488 (November 16, 1993), codified at 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb through 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-4 (also known as RFRA, pronounced "rifra" [1]), is a 1993 United States federal law that "ensures that interests in religious freedom are protected."