Cantwell
v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
Religious guarantees incorporated into 14th
Amend.
Establishment Cases
Everson
v. Board of Education of Ewing Tp.,
330 U.S. 1 (1947)
Use of tax money for parochial
school transportion
McCollum
v. Board of Education,
333 U.S. 203 (1948)
Illinois on-campus religious instruction
program
Zorach
v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952)
N.Y.C.off-campus released time program
Braunfeld
v. Brown, 366 U.S. 599 (1961)
Orthodox Jews object to Sunday closing
laws
Engle
v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
Prohibited official prayers
in public schools
Abington
School Dist. v. Schempp,
374 U.S. 204 (1963)
Prohibits school sponsored Lord's
Prayer reading
Sherbert
v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963)
S.C. denies workman's comp. to 7th-Day
Adventist
Lemon
v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971)
Court develops establishment clause
guidelines
Gillette
v. United States, 401 U.S.437 (1971)
Conscientious Objection to service
in Vietnam
Lynch
v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984)
City display of Christmas creche
challenged
Allegheny
County v. Greater Pittsburgh ACLU,
492 U.S.
573 (1989)
City display of religious holiday
decorations
Board
of Ed.of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet,
114 S.CT 2481(1994)
Public support for Hassidic
Jewish schools questioned
Free Exercise Cases
Reynolds
v.U.S., 98 U.S.145 (1878)
Mormon challenges law against
polygamy
Follett
v. Town of McCormick, S.C.,
321 U.S.
573 (1944)
Can town license tax apply to
religious tracts?
United
States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944)
Cultist charged with fraud:
sent back to lower court
United
States v. Ballard, 329 U.S. 187 (1946)
Definition of fraud in religion cases,
& women jurors
Wisconsin
v. Yoder et al., 406 U.S. 205 (1972)
Amish seek exemption from high
school attendance
Employment
Div., Ore. Dept. of Human Res. v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
Use of peyote (illegal drug) in Indian
religious rites
Church
of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)
Slaughter of animals in Senteria
religious exercises
City
of Boerne v. Flores, Archbishop of San Antonio, et al.,
U.S. (1997)
City denies a building permit
for church expansion |
Griggs
v. Duke Power Co, 401 U.S.424 (1971)
Use of diploma
and IQ requirements in hiring
University
of California Regents v. Bakke,
438 U.S.
265 (1978)
Use of race in university admissions
Steelworkers
v. Weber, 443 U.S.193 (1979)
Voluntary company affirmative
action plan
Adarand
Constructors, Inc. v. Pena,
515 U.S. 200 (1995)
Use of race in government contracting
practices
Taxman
v. Board of Education of Piscataway,
Third Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals
#94-5090 (1996)
A white teacher, a black teacher:
one must go
Gratz
v. Bollinger (2003)
An applicant to U. of
Michigan claimed she was rejected unconstitutionally because she was white.
She won the case.
Grutter
v. Bollinger (2003)
An applicant to U. of
Michigan law school claimed she was rejected unconstitutionally because
she was white. She lost the case. |