They characterize our position on the free-exercise clause as requiring “exemptions ... government concern — harming others, for example — will not allow the exemption.

Smith, the Supreme Court held that the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment cannot ... not-for-profit organizations, so that, for example, a Catholic diocese would not have to provide ...

Probably not. In Locke v. Davey (2004) the Supreme Court held that the government did not violate the Free Exercise Clause when it refused to fund scholarships for students preparing for the ministry, ...

Thus, for example, the pamphlet written by James ... And here is Justice O'Connor's argument that the Free Exercise Clause did require religious exemptions even from religion-neutral, generally ...

The majority opinion written by Justice Gorsuch for a six-member majority continued the court's march to alter the traditional balance between the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses in favor ...

Supporters of the narrower view of the Free Exercise of Religion Clause, such as Professor Hamburger, argue that these examples imply only that specific statutory exemptions may be granted by ...

Smith (1990) explaining that a plaintiff may establish a violation of the Free Exercise Clause by showing that a neutral and generally applicable law violates "the Free Exercise Clause in ...

Smith did not attempt to argue that this interpretation was commanded by the text of the free-exercise clause. And Smith admitted that reliance on legislatively created accommodations will likely ...

The Supreme Court enjoys creating catch-22 scenarios. It has generated numerous instances. For example, it holds that the Free Exercise Clause forbids anti-religious discrimination, but also holds ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an ...