United Christian Scientists v. Christian Science Board of Directors, First Church of Christ, Scientist

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a private law granting to TFCCS an exclusive copyright to Mary Baker Eddy's work, Science and Health, A Key to the Scriptures, contravened the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment
• affirming district court’s issuance of a declaratory judgment pursuant to a motion for summary judgment
• “ ‘[T]he First Amendment requires that a statute ... be invalidated if it is entirely motivated by a purpose to advance religion.’ ”
• “Government is permitted, and at times required, to accommodate religious practice when government itself, directly or indirectly, places a burden on religious exercise.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).