United States Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment

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Contents 1 Government Intervention in Church Controversies 2 The Free Exercise of Religion 2.1 The Jehovah's Witnesses Cases 2.2 Conscientious Objection to War 2.3 Religion and the Right to Work 2.4 Religious Tests for Public Service or Benefits 2.5 Free Exercise and Free Speech 2.6 Free Exercise and Public Education 2.7 Free Exercise and Public Property 2.8 Free Exercise and Taxation 2.9 Solicitation by Religious Groups 2.10 Free Exercise and Eminent Domain 2.11 Ritual sacrifice of animals 3 The Establishment of Religion 3.1 Standing to Sue 3.2 Tax Exemption to Religious Institutions 4 Sunday Work 5 Religious Institution Functioning as a Government Agency 6 Unequal Government Treatment of Religious Groups 7 Legislative Chaplains 7.1 Government-Sponsored Nativity Scenes 7.2 Government Aid to Public Education 8 Governmental Aid to Church-Related Schools 9 Prayer in Public Schools 10 Teaching of Creationism in Public Schools 11 Further reading

[edit] Government Intervention in Church Controversies

• United States v. Ballard (1944)
• Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral (1952)
• Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church (1969)
• Jones v. Wolf (1979)

[edit] The Free Exercise of Religion

[edit] The Jehovah's Witnesses Cases

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Jones v. Opelika I (1942)
• Jones v. Opelika II (1943)
• Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943)
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)
• Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)

[edit] Conscientious Objection to War

• United States v. Schwimmer (1929)
• United States v. Macintosh (1931)
• Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California (1934)
• Girouard v. United States (1946)
• United States v. Seeger (1965)
• Welsh v. United States (1970)
• Gillette v. United States (1971)

[edit] Religion and the Right to Work

• Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
• Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)
• Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools (1986)
• Corporation of the Presiding Bishops of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos (1987)
• Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
• United States v. National Treasury Employees Union (1995)

[edit] Religious Tests for Public Service or Benefits

• Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
• McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
• Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
• Bowen v. Roy (1986)

[edit] Free Exercise and Free Speech

• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul

[edit] Free Exercise and Public Education

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
• Widmar v. Vincent (1981)
• Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens(1990)
• Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
• Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)

[edit] Free Exercise and Public Property

• Capital Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)

[edit] Free Exercise and Taxation

• United States v. Lee (1982)
• Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)

[edit] Solicitation by Religious Groups

• Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)

[edit] Free Exercise and Eminent Domain

• Lyng v. Northwest Indian CPA (1988)
• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

[edit] Ritual sacrifice of animals

• Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)

[edit] The Establishment of Religion

[edit] Standing to Sue

• Flast v. Cohen (1968)
• Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (1982)
• Bender v. Williamsport (1986)

[edit] Tax Exemption to Religious Institutions

• Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
• Texas Monthly Inc. v. Bullock (1989)

[edit] Sunday Work

• McGowan v. Maryland (1961)
• Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
• Thorton v. Caldor (1985)

[edit] Religious Institution Functioning as a Government Agency

• Larkin v. Grendel's Den
• Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
• Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School v. Grumet (1994)

[edit] Unequal Government Treatment of Religious Groups

• Larson v. Valente (1982)

[edit] Legislative Chaplains

• Marsh v. Chambers (1983)

[edit] Government-Sponsored Nativity Scenes

• Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
• County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)

[edit] Government Aid to Public Education

• McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)
• Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
• Engel v. Vitale (1962)
• Abington Township School District v. Schempp (1963)
• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
• Stone v. Graham (1980)
• Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
• Agostini v. Felton (1997)
• Mitchell v. Helms (2000)

[edit] Governmental Aid to Church-Related Schools

• Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
• Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education (1930)
• Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
• Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
• Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
• Tilton v. Richardson (1971)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)
• Meek v. Pittenger(1975)
• Roemer v. Board of Public Works of Maryland (1976)
• Wolman v. Walter (1977)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan (1980)
• Mueller v. Allen (1983)
• Aguilar v. Felton (1985)
• Grand Rapids School District v. Ball (1985)
• Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District(1993)

[edit] Prayer in Public Schools

• Lee v. Weisman (1992)

[edit] Teaching of Creationism in Public Schools

• Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)

[edit] Further reading

• The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, ed.
• The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit L. Hall, ed.
• The Godless Court? Supreme Court Decisions on Church-State Relationships. Ronald B. Flowers.
• The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness. Isaac Kramnick & R. Laurence Moore. Compare
• The Constitution and Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Robert S. Alley
• The Supreme Court on Church and State. Robert S. Alley

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