Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “the Free Exercise Clause does not require the government to apply its laws to activities that it does not have an interest in preventing”
• requiring city police to allow Muslim officer to wear beards because no-beards rule in department policy allowed exemptions for medical reasons
• “[W]hen the government makes a value judgment in favor of secular motivations, but'not religious motivations, the government’s actions must survive heightened scrutiny.”
• “[T]he Department’s decision to provide medical exemptions while refusing religious exemptions is sufficiently suggestive of discriminatory intent so as to trigger heightened scrutiny under Smith and Lukumi.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).