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Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 515 U.S. 819 (1995), was an opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding whether a state university might, consistent with the First Amendment, withhold from student religious publications funding provided to similar secular student publications.
Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reaffirmed that the United States Constitution prohibits states and the federal government from requiring any kind of religious test for public office, in this case as a notary public.
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and introduced into the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond in 1779. [1] On January 16, 1786, the Assembly enacted the statute into the state's law.
Cases involving the search and seizure of allegedly obscene material Marcus v. Search Warrant, (1961) Quantity of Books v. Kansas (1964) Lee Art Theatre, Inc. v. Virginia (1968) United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs (1971) United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film (1973) Roaden v. Kentucky (1973) Lo-Ji Sales, Inc., v. New York (1979 ...
When people have religious freedom, society can improve and grow as they learn from each other, writes Rev. Robert Montgomery. Opinion: America's secular government must not favor any specific ...
The Court did not take any significant steps to clarify where the line was drawn between anti-discrimination laws and freedom of religion, but instead made a more narrow decision that found the state was too aggressive and hostile to the bakery in handling the matter, thus remitting the case to lower courts to review.
A long-running religious freedom case has come full circle, with a court ruling this week that a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota cannot be threatened with the loss of homes if its ...
Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote the majority decision; in doing so, he relied primarily on the "secular regulation" rule, which weighs the secular purpose of a nonreligious government regulation against the religious practice it makes illegal or otherwise burdens the exercise of religion. He identified the Pennsylvania flag-salute requirement ...