Biscotto v. Wiechec's Lounge, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• invalidating law aimed at Confederate sympathizers which required clergymen to take expurgatory oath in order to preach
• striking down a statute when it “was intended to reach the person, not the calling”
• The Ex Post Facto Clause \cannot be evaded by the form in which the power of the State is exerted\
• The Ex Post Facto Clause “cannot be evaded by the form in which the power of the State is exerted”
• “The legal result must be the same, if there is any force in the maxim, that what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly____”
• Missouri law that imposed fines on priests for ministering without first taking an oath denying past sympathy for Confederacy violated the Ex Post Facto Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).