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2024 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded

Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Comm’n.

605 U.S. 238

The record

Term
2024
Decided
Issue area
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Vote split
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Winning party
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Decision direction
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Chief Justice
Roberts Court
Disposition
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Docket
24-154
U.S. Reports
605 U.S. 238
S. Ct. citation
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LEXIS citation
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Opinion by
Sonia Sotomayor

Holding

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision denying petitioners a tax emption available to religious entities under Wisconsin law on the grounds that petitioners were not “operated primarily for religious purposes” because they neither engaged in proselytization nor limited their charitable services to Catholics violated the First Amendment.

Syllabus summary as published on the Supreme Court’s opinions list.

How the bench divided

No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.