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Year: 1993
Issue: was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance passed in Hialeah, Florida, forbidding the "unnecessar[y]" killing of "an animal in a public or private ritual or ceremony not for the primary purpose of food
Decision: by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Justices Byron White, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, David Souter, and Clarence Thomas concluded that the city’s ordinances violated the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution.

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year: 1972
Issue: The Wisconsin Compulsory School Attendance Law violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment because required attendance past the eighth grade interfered with the right of Amish parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children. Supreme Court of Wisconsin affirmed.
Decision: The ruling is cited as a basis for allowing people to be educated outside traditional private or public schools, such as with

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Year: 1940
Issue:  United States Supreme Court decision  that incorporated or applied to the states, through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment's protection of religious free exercise.
Decision: Before the Cantwell decision, it was not legally clear that the First Amendment protected religious practitioners against restrictions at the state and local levels as well as federal. But the Supreme Court in Cantwell said it did, thereby ushering in an era of greatly strengthened religious freedom.

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Year: 1878
Issue: The Court ruled unanimously that a law banning polygamy was constitutional, and did not infringe upon individuals' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion
Decision:  The Court concluded that people cannot excuse themselves from the law because of their religion. “Can a man excuse his [illegal] practices…because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself. Government could exist only in name under such circumstances….”

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Year: 2005
Issue: A case involving whether a display of the Ten Commandments on a monument given to the government at the Texas State Capitol in Austin violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Decision: The Supreme Court ruled on June 27, 2005, by a vote of 5 to 4, that the display was constitutional. The Court chose not to employ the popular Lemon test in its analysis, reasoning that the display at issue was a "passive monument."[

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Year: 1983
Issue: Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers sued in federal court claiming that the legislature's practice of opening sessions with a prayer offered by a state-supported chaplain was in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Decision: A landmark court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that government funding for chaplains was constitutional because of the "unique history" of the United States.

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Year: 1984
Issue: Pawtucket, Rhode Island's annual Christmas display in the city's shopping district, consisting of a Santa Claus house, a Christmas tree, a banner reading "Season's Greetings," and a crèche, was challenged in court.
Decision: The Supreme Court reversed previous rulings in a vote of 5–4, ruling that the display was not an effort to advocate a particular religious message and had "legitimate secular purposes."

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Year: 1971
Issue: The Supreme Court had to decide if states could give money to religious schools to hire teachers even if it was specified that the teachers couldn't teach religion.
Decision:  The Supreme Court of the United States found that the passing of any state laws that establish a religious body is a direct violation of the United States Constitution.

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Year: 1968
Issue: The Court held that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state from requiring, in the words of the majority opinion, "that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma."
Decision: The Supreme Court declared the Arkansas statute unconstitutional because it violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

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Year: 2001
Issue:  Held that when a government operates a "limited public forum," it may not discriminate against speech that takes place within that forum on the basis of the viewpoint it expresses.
Decision: n light of the "quintessentially religious" nature of the club's activities, the court further held that the school district was engaging in "constitutional subject discrimination" rather than "unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination" when it excluded the club from meeting on its premises. In light of a split among the federal appeals courts regarding whether speech may be excluded from a limited public forum by reason of its religious content, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the Second Circuit's ruling in this case.

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Year: 1962
Issue: United States Supreme Court case that ruled it is unconstitutional
Decision: state officials composed an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

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Year: 1948
Issue: Illinois public school board had violated the First Amendment's establishment clause when it allowed religious instruction during school hours and on school property.
Decision: Accordingly, the court found that the religious-instruction program was unconstitutional. The ruling of the Illinois Supreme Court was reversed.

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Year: 1946-1949
Issue: The taxpayer contended that reimbursement given for children attending private religious schools violated the constitutional prohibition against state support of religion, and the taking of taxpayers' dollar bills to do so violated the constitution's Due Process Clause.
Decision:  A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which applied the Establishment Clause in the country's Bill of Rights to State law.

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Year: 1925
Issue: The Society of Sisters interfered with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.
Decision: The 14th Amendment provides parents and guardians with a liberty interest in their choice in the mode in which their children are educated