Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Trinity_Lutheran_Church_v._Comer
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:arguedDate 2017-04-19
gptkbp:category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court
2017 in United States case law
United States church–state separation case law
gptkbp:citation 137 S. Ct. 2012
198 L. Ed. 2d 551
582 U.S. ___
gptkbp:concurringInJudgmentBy gptkb:Stephen_Breyer
gptkbp:concurringOpinionBy gptkb:Clarence_Thomas
gptkb:Neil_Gorsuch
gptkbp:date 2017-06-26
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy gptkb:Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
gptkb:Sonia_Sotomayor
gptkbp:docketNumber 15-577
gptkbp:grantOfCertiorari 2016-01-15
gptkbp:heldBy The exclusion of churches from an otherwise neutral and secular aid program violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy gptkb:Anthony_Kennedy
gptkb:Clarence_Thomas
gptkb:Elena_Kagan
gptkb:John_G._Roberts,_Jr.
gptkb:Neil_Gorsuch
gptkb:Samuel_Alito
Stephen Breyer (in part)
gptkbp:numberOfIssues Whether the exclusion of a church from a public benefit program violates the Free Exercise Clause.
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:Missouri
gptkbp:petitioner gptkb:Trinity_Lutheran_Church_of_Columbia,_Inc.
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Espinoza_v._Montana_Department_of_Revenue
gptkbp:rehearingDenied 2017-10-02
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Locke_v._Davey
gptkbp:response Carol S. Comer (Director, Missouri Department of Natural Resources)
Sarah Parker Pauley (Director, Missouri Department of Natural Resources)
gptkbp:result Reversed and remanded
gptkbp:subject gptkb:First_Amendment
gptkb:Free_Exercise_Clause
state funding for religious institutions
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:First_Amendment
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5