Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer
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Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a Missouri program that denied a grant to a religious school for playground resurfacing, while providing grants to similarly situated non-religious groups, violated the freedom of religion guaranteed by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.[1][2]
Quick Facts Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, Argued April 19, 2017 Decided June 26, 2017 ...
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer | |
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Argued April 19, 2017 Decided June 26, 2017 | |
Full case name | Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc., Petitioner v. Carol S. Comer, Director, Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
Docket no. | 15-577 |
Citations | 582 U.S. ___ (more) 137 S. Ct. 2012; 198 L. Ed. 2d 551; 2017 U.S. LEXIS 4061; 2017 WL 2722410 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Case history | |
Prior | 976 F. Supp. 2d 1137 (W.D. Mo. 2013); 788 F.3d 779 (8th Cir. 2015); cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 891 (2016). |
Holding | |
Missouri's policy violated the rights of Trinity Lutheran under the Free Exercise Clause by denying the church an otherwise available public benefit on account of its religious status. (Eighth Circuit reversed and remanded.) | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Roberts, joined by Kennedy, Alito, Kagan; Thomas, Gorsuch (except footnote 3) |
Concurrence | Thomas (in part), joined by Gorsuch |
Concurrence | Gorsuch (in part), joined by Thomas |
Concurrence | Breyer (in judgment) |
Dissent | Sotomayor, joined by Ginsburg |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. I |
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