Johnson v. Coons

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the court had to “first consider whether the object in question can be defined as ‘religious’ for establishment [clause] purposes”
• noting that the First Amendment must be held to protect the “unfamiliar and idiosyncratic as well as commonly recognized religions,” but it loses its sense, and ability to protect, when carried to extremes
• endorsing the Africa test in the First Amendment context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).