Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas v. Chacon

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• holding that tribe’s First Amendment right to free exercise of its religion was not violated by state statutes authorizing disinterment and autopsy
• finding that Texas statute authorizing autopsies did not violate First Amendment, although procedure delayed burial in contravention of religious custom and belief
• Tribe did not have standing to assert a first amendment violation because the rights sought to be asserted were primarily those of a small group of Tribe members and not those of the Tribe as a whole

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