Employment Division v. Rogue Valley Youth for Christ

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a FUTA-compliant unemployment compensation system protects, in a significant way, the economic security of all Oregon’s citizens.
• holding that Oregon must treat all religious organizations similarly for unemployment tax purposes under the Oregon Constitution, whether or not they qualify as churches under 26 USC § 3301 et seq and ORS 657.072(l)(a)
• explaining that, “[i]f a statute tells an agency to do something that a constitution forbids, the agency should not do it”
• explaining that analysis of Oregon free exercise claims largely mirrors analysis of First Amendment free exercise claims
• applying unemployment compensation taxation scheme to religious organizations did not offend Free Exercise Clause
• applying unemployment compensation taxation scheme to religious organizations did not offend Free Exercise Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).