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Below is a selection of Supreme Court cases involving religion, arranged from newest to oldest. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022) Author: Neil Gorsuch. The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal.
Religious Liberty: Landmark Supreme Court Cases. The Court examined whether the federal anti-bigamy statute violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, because plural marriage is part of religious practice. It unanimously upheld the federal law banning ... Show more. Reynolds v. United States (1879)
A case in which the Court held that a state law prohibiting students participating in an otherwise generally available student-aid program from choosing to use their aid to attend schools that provide religious, or “sectarian,” instruction violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
Mar 16, 2022 · By a two-to-one vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit affirmed, holding that Title VII does not require an employer to offer a religiously observant employee an accommodation that “comes at the expense of other workers,” and Walmart was not obligated to compromise its rotation system for managers.
Jun 27, 2022 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued another significant ruling broadening religious rights, siding with a Christian former public high school football coach in Washington state who sued...
Apr 5, 2021 · The study, to be published in The Supreme Court Review, documented a 35-percentage-point increase in the rate of rulings in favor of religion in orally argued cases, culminating in an 81...
This First Amendment activity is based on the landmark Supreme Court case Engel v. Vitale, dealing with the line between religion and public schools. Using these talking points to start the discussion, argue your position in answer to the question: Is school-sponsored prayer in public schools unconstitutional?
This is a list of cases that appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Jul 21, 2023 · This summer, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued two major decisions with religion at the center of the cases. In Groff v. DeJoy, the court bolstered protections for workers asking for religious accommodations, and in 303 Creative v.
Jul 8, 2023 · This term, the Supreme Court decided two cases involving religion: Groff v. DeJoy was a relatively low-profile case about religious accommodations at work; 303 Creative v. Elenis was a...
