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(2) Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the state’s charter-school program solely because the schools are religious, or whether a state can justify such an exclusion by invoking antiestablishment interests that go further than the Establishment Clause requires.
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly.
A case dealing with the prosecution of a polygamist under federal law, and the defendant's claim of protection under the Free Exercise Clause, the Court sustained the law and the government's prosecution. The Court read the Free Exercise Clause as protecting religious practices, but that did not protect Reynolds' practices which were crimes. [5]
Carson v. Makin, 596 U.S. 767 (2022), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case related to the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It was a follow-up to Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
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.
In a unanimous judgment on June 17, 2021, the Court ruled that the City's refusal due to the agency's same-sex couple policy violated the Free Exercise Clause. The Court decided the case on narrow grounds outside of the Supreme Court's prior decision in Employment Division v.
The July 2020 ruling on that case relied on Hosanna-Tabor to rule in favor of the schools against the teachers. [4] The Obama Administration's case was argued by Leondra Kruger, who at the time worked under Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. In 2022, as a candidate for the Supreme Court, this led to questions about her views on freedom of ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has so far handed down five per curiam opinions during its 2024 term, which began October 7, 2024, and will conclude October 5, 2025. [1] Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices ...