Torcaso v. Watkins, Clerk

The Supreme Court found that Wisconsin's denial was unconstitutional because it discriminated against religious organizations based on their religious activities.

The Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.

The Court reversed the Fourth Circuit, ruling that a World War I memorial in the shape of a Latin cross on government-owned land did not violate the Establishment Clause since it had stood for decades without controversy.· AI-written

The Court decided that the Town of Greece, New York may permit volunteer chaplains to open each legislative session with a prayer.

In a dispute over a Latin cross placed on a rock outcropping in the Mojave National Preserve to honor war dead, the Court ruled that the cross may stay but sent the case back to a lower court.· AI-written

The Court ruled that Ten Commandments displays at two Kentucky county courthouses, challenged under the Establishment Clause, were unconstitutional.· AI-written

The Court ruled that a display of the Ten Commandments on a monument given to the government at the Texas State Capitol did not violate the Establishment Clause, holding the display constitutional.· AI-written

The Court held that, under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), facilities that accept federal funds cannot deny prisoners accommodations that are necessary to engage in activities for the practice of their own religious beliefs.

The Court held that a public school's exclusion of a club from its limited public forum based solely on the club's religious nature was impermissible viewpoint discrimination.· AI-written

The Court ruled that a policy permitting student-led, student-initiated school prayer at high school football games violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

In a dispute over a state university withholding student activity funding from a religious student publication while funding similar secular ones, the Court disagreed with the University and ruled against its Establishment Clause defense.· AI-written

The Court held that schools may not sponsor clerics to conduct even non-denominational prayer.

The Court considered holiday displays on public property in downtown Pittsburgh and held that the county violated the Establishment Clause by displaying a nativity scene in the courthouse, because its primary effect was to advance religion.· AI-written

In a challenge to a Texas statute exempting religious publications from state sales tax, the Court overturned an appellate court's decision that the exemption was constitutional and remanded the case.· AI-written

The Court upheld the constitutionality of the Adolescent Family Life Act.

The court decided that the exemption of religious organizations from the prohibition of religious discrimination in employment in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is constitutional.

The Court held that a state statute providing employees with an absolute right not to work on their chosen Sabbath violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

An evenly split Court upheld per curiam a lower court's decision that the display of a privately sponsored nativity scene on public property does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court of the United States held that government funding for chaplains was constitutional because of the "unique history" of the United States.

The Supreme Court, in an 8–1 decision, ruled that Massachusetts' law violated the Establishment Clause as it delegated powers normally reserved to the government to non-government entities and would allow decisions to be made along religious lines, effectively advancing religious purposes.

The Court held that the Minnesota Charitable Solicitation Act, which imposed registration and reporting requirements on religious organizations that solicit more than 50% of their funds from nonmembers, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The Court held that when the U.S. government provides an "open forum," it may not discriminate against speech that takes place within that forum on the basis of the viewpoint it expresses—in this case, against religious speech engaged in by an evangelical Christian organization.

The Court held that grants of tax exemption to religious organizations do not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The Court invalidated an Arkansas statute prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in the public schools.

The Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.

The Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment.

The Court held that blue laws, which prohibited most businesses from operating on Sundays, did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause nor the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

The Court affirmed the Maryland State Supreme Court's decision that the state's Sunday closing laws did not have a religious purpose to aid religion and that the secular purpose of the legislation to set aside a day of rest and recreation did not violate the Establishment Clause.

The Court, applying the Establishment Clause to the states, ruled that a New Jersey school district's reimbursement of bus fares to parents of private religious school students did not violate the Constitution.· AI-written