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Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), is a United States Supreme Court case that held that the state could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state prohibition on the use of peyote even though the use of the drug was part of a religious ritual.
Sohappy v. Smith, 302 F. Supp. 899 (D. Or. 1969), [1] was a federal case heard by the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, decided in 1969 and amended in 1975. It began with fourteen members of the Yakama who sued the U.S. state of Oregon over its fishing regulations.
Frohnmayer prevailed in six out of the seven cases that he took to the United States Supreme Court: [5] Oregon v. Kennedy (1982), Oregon v. Bradshaw (1983), Oregon v. Elstad (1985), Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife v. Klamath Indian Tribe (1985), Whitley v. Albers (1986), and Employment Division v. Smith (1990). [5] His one unsuccessful ...
A case that was combined with Sohappy v. Smith (302 F.Supp. 899), a 1969 United States federal district court case concerning fishing rights of Native Americans. (See United States v. Washington for further info.) Gonzales v. Oregon, a 2006 United States Supreme Court case in which the United States Department of Justice unsuccessfully ...
A second instance multiple scholars referenced was the 1990 case Employment Division v. Smith, which found that the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause did not contain the right to religious ...
Over several years Marsh presided over several cases concerning salmon. [4] This included later oversight of the Sohappy v. Smith case concerning tribal rights to salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest. [14] He also heard the first challenges to the dams on the Columbia River under the Endangered Species Act after some salmon runs were listed as ...
College Football Playoff quarterfinals Fiesta Bowl. No. 6 Penn State vs. No. 3 Boise State. Date: Dec. 31 | Time: 7:30 p.m. ET | TV: ESPN | Line: Penn State -10.5 | Total: 52.5 The Nittany Lions ...
Apodaca v. Oregon: 406 U.S. 404 (1972) State juries may convict a defendant by less than unanimity Jackson v. Indiana: 406 U.S. 715 (1972) Indefinite detention of a defendant incompetent to stand trial violates due process and equal protection: Aikens v. California: 406 U.S. 813 (1972) Mootness in a death penalty case The Bremen v. Zapata Off ...