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· 5/5/2005

Corp. of the Presiding Bishop v. City of West Linn

Citations

  • 111 P.3d 1123
  • 338 Or. 453
  • 2005 Ore. LEXIS 204

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that, where “the EFAA’s text sup- plies a clear answer to the questions at issue here, the Court does not have any charter to consider legislative history”
  • explaining that RLUIPA is interpreted to embody jurisprudence under Free Exercise Clause
  • addressing the same \tendency to inhibit test” that Living-Water urges before us and finding that \the [U.S. Supreme] Court did not adopt a 'tendency to inhibit’ test in Sherbert or use that test to decide Sherbert or any other case.”
  • addressing the same “tendency to inhibit test” that Living W ater urges before us and finding that “the [U.S. Supreme] Court did not adopt a ‘tendency to inhibit’ test in Sherbert or use that test to decide Sherbert or any other case.”
  • “Congress used the term ‘substantial burden’ because that was the term that the [United States Supreme] Court had used in Sherbert and other [f]ree [e]xercise cases decided before Smith”

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Judges: Balmer

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