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Wisconsin v. Jonas Yoder , 406 U.S. 205 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade . The Court ruled that the Amish parents' fundamental right to free exercise of religion outweighed the state's interest in educating their children.
[15] The court rejected the parent's reliance on Yoder's holding regarding religious choice. [15] However, in March 2008, the court agreed to rehear the case and vacated its prior decision. In August 2008, the court issued a new decision unanimously reversing its earlier decision and the Court further stated that homeschooling was legal in ...
In Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), the Court ruled that a law that "unduly burdens the practice of religion" without a compelling interest, even though it might be "neutral on its face," would be unconstitutional. The "compelling interest" doctrine became much narrower in 1990, when the Supreme Court held in Employment Division v.
[23] In the case of Miller v. Commissioner, the taxpayers objected to the use of social security numbers, arguing that such numbers related to the "mark of the beast" from the Bible. In its decision, the U.S. Court discussed the applicability of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, but ruled against the taxpayers. [24] In Navajo Nation v.
In U.S. constitutional law, when a law infringes upon a fundamental constitutional right, the court may apply the strict scrutiny standard. Strict scrutiny holds the challenged law as presumptively invalid unless the government can demonstrate that the law or regulation is necessary to achieve a "compelling state interest".
MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has announced it will take up a case filed by a conservative business lobbying group against Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' use of his partial veto power to ...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s four liberal justices voted in March to accept the case, agreeing specifically only to resolve whether the 22-month-old ruling was incorrectly decided, but not any ...
The TAA, the union for graduate student workers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the decision "validates what Wisconsin workers have long known: Act 10 is an attack on the working ...