In the Supreme Court of the United States, Sharonell Fulton, et al., petitioners, v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al., respondents : on writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit : brief of Christian Legal Society, the Anglican Church in North America, Center for Public Justice, Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Queens Federation of Churches, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and Worldvision, Inc. as amici curiae in support of petitioners

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Laycock, Douglas, author

Summary

At issue is whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim - namely that the government would allow the same conduct by someone who held diff...

At issue is whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim - namely that the government would allow the same conduct by someone who held different religious views - as two circuits have held, or whether courts must consider other evidence that a law is not neutral and generally applicable, as six circuits have held; (2) whether Employment Division v. Smith should be revisited; and (3) whether the government violates the First Amendment by conditioning a religious agency's ability to participate in the foster care system on taking actions and making statements that directly contradict the agency's religious beliefs.

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