Julea Ward v. Vernon Polite

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• suggesting that such standards can account in practice for differing levels of maturity between college and public school students
• ruling in favor of a student expelled from a counseling degree program where professional standards of ethics did not, as the university argued, prohibit the course of conduct the student proposed to her supervisors
• observing that Barnette “enforced that prohibition [on viewpoint discrimination] in the public school setting”
• ruling in favor of a student expelled from a counseling degree program where professional standards of ethics did not, as the university argued, prohibit the course of conduct the student proposed to her supervisors
• noting that while a law might appear “neutral and generally applicable on its face, . . . in practice [it may be] riddled with exemptions or worse [be] a veiled cover for targeting a belief or a faith-based practice”
• noting that “after-the-fact invention[s]” permit an inference of religious discrimination

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