Perez v. Oakdale Irrigation Dist.

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• accepting claim that peyote exemption for Native American Church requires peyote exemption for other religions that use that substance in their sacraments
• accepting claim that peyote exemption for Native American Church requires peyote exemption for other religions that use that substance in their sacraments
• rejecting the Government’s proposed racial reading of the exemption: “[w]e cannot say that the Government has a lesser or different interest in protecting the health of Indians than it has in protecting the health of non-Indians”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).