City of Boerne v. Flores

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:arguedDate 1997-02-19
gptkbp:citation 521 U.S. 507
gptkbp:concurringOpinionBy gptkb:Sandra_Day_O'Connor
gptkb:David_Souter
gptkb:John_Paul_Stevens
gptkbp:date 1997-06-25
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:defendant gptkb:Patrick_F._Flores
gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy gptkb:Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
gptkb:Sandra_Day_O'Connor
gptkb:David_Souter
gptkb:Antonin_Scalia
gptkb:John_Paul_Stevens
gptkb:Stephen_Breyer
gptkbp:docketNumber 95-2076
gptkbp:fullName City of Boerne, Petitioner v. Patrick F. Flores, Archbishop of San Antonio, and United States
gptkbp:heldBy Congress exceeded its Fourteenth Amendment enforcement powers by enacting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as applied to the states.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label City of Boerne v. Flores
gptkbp:impact Limited the scope of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as applied to states
gptkbp:location gptkb:Boerne,_Texas
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy gptkb:Anthony_Kennedy
gptkbp:plaintiff gptkb:City_of_Boerne
gptkbp:principle Congress's enforcement powers under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment are limited to enforcing constitutional rights as defined by the Supreme Court.
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Employment_Division_v._Smith
gptkb:Gonzales_v._O_Centro_Espírita_Beneficente_União_do_Vegetal
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Federalism
gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkb:Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act
gptkb:Separation_of_powers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5