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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]
This is a list of cases that appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the ... (also involving the Free Exercise Clause) Watson v. Jones ...
Establishment Clause: 374 U.S. 203 (1963) constitutionality of mandatory bible reading in public schools Sherbert v. Verner: Free Exercise Clause: 374 U.S. 398 (1963) strict scrutiny for religiously-based discrimination in unemployment compensation England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners: 375 U.S. 411 (1964)
(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. January 24, 2025
The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment states that Congress shall not pass laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion. In the 1960s, the Supreme Court interpreted this as banning laws that burdened a person's exercise of religion (e.g. Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)). But in the ...
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439 (1988), was a United States Supreme Court landmark [2] case in which the Court ruled on the applicability of the Free Exercise Clause to the practice of religion on Native American sacred lands, specifically in the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in California. [2]
religious meetings and the Free Exercise Clause: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co. 346 U.S. 119 (1953) a corporation offering "key employees" stock shares is still subject to Section 4(1) of the Securities Act of 1933
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 religion.