List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment

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Contents 1 The Establishment of Religion 1.1 Standing to Sue 1.2 Tax Exemption to Religious Institutions 2 The Free Exercise of Religion 2.1 The Jehovah's Witnesses Cases 2.2 Religion and the Right to Work 2.3 Religious Tests for Public Service or Benefits 2.4 Free Exercise and Free Speech 2.5 Free Exercise and Public Education 2.6 Free Exercise and Public Property 2.7 Free Exercise and Taxation 2.8 Solicitation by Religious Groups 2.9 Free Exercise and Eminent Domain 2.10 Ritual sacrifice of animals 3 Public and Private Education 3.1 Government Aid to Public Education 3.2 Governmental Aid to Church-Related Schools 3.3 Prayer in Public Schools 3.4 Teaching of Creationism in Public Schools 4 Sunday Work 5 Religious Institution Functioning as a Government Agency 6 Unequal Government Treatment of Religious Groups 7 Legislative Chaplains 7.1 Government-Sponsored Nativity Scenes 8 Government Intervention in Church Controversies 9 Further reading

The Establishment of Religion

Standing to Sue

• Flast v. Cohen (1968)
• Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (1982)
• Bender v. Williamsport (1986)

Tax Exemption to Religious Institutions

• Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
• Texas Monthly Inc. v. Bullock (1989)

The Free Exercise of Religion

The Jehovah's Witnesses Cases

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (I) (1942)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (II) (1943)
• Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943)
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
• Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)
• Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)

Religion and the Right to Work

• Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
• Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)
• Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools (1986)
• Corporation of the Presiding Bishops of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos (1987)
• Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
• United States v. National Treasury Employees Union (1995)

Religious Tests for Public Service or Benefits

• Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
• McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
• Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
• Bowen v. Roy (1986)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

Free Exercise and Free Speech

• R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)

Free Exercise and Public Education

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
• Widmar v. Vincent (1981)
• Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
• Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
• Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)

Free Exercise and Public Property

• Capital Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)

Free Exercise and Taxation

• United States v. Lee (1982)
• Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)

Solicitation by Religious Groups

• Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)

Free Exercise and Eminent Domain

• Lyng v. Northwest Indian CPA (1988)
• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

Ritual sacrifice of animals

• Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)

Public and Private Education

Government Aid to Public Education

• McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)
• Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
• Engel v. Vitale (1962)
• Abington Township School District v. Schempp (1963)
• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
• Stone v. Graham (1980)
• Agostini v. Felton (1997)
• Mitchell v. Helms (2000)

Governmental Aid to Church-Related Schools

• Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
• Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education (1930)
• Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
• Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
• Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
• Tilton v. Richardson (1971)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)
• Meek v. Pittenger (1975)
• Roemer v. Board of Public Works of Maryland (1976)
• Wolman v. Walter (1977)
• Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan (1980)
• Mueller v. Allen (1983)
• Aguilar v. Felton (1985)
• Grand Rapids School District v. Ball (1985)
• Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993)

Prayer in Public Schools

• Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
• Lee v. Weisman (1992)
• Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe (2000)

Teaching of Creationism in Public Schools

• Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)

Sunday Work

• McGowan v. Maryland (1961)
• Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
• Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc. (1961)
• Thorton v. Caldor (1985)

Religious Institution Functioning as a Government Agency

• Larkin v. Grendel's Den
• Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
• Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School v. Grumet (1994)

Unequal Government Treatment of Religious Groups

• Larson v. Valente (1982)

Legislative Chaplains

• Marsh v. Chambers (1983)

Government-Sponsored Nativity Scenes

• Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
• County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)

Government Intervention in Church Controversies

• United States v. Ballard (1944)
• Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral (1952)
• Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church (1969)
• Jones v. Wolf (1979)

Further reading

• The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, ed.
• The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit L. Hall, ed.
• The Godless Court? Supreme Court Decisions on Church-State Relationships. Ronald B. Flowers.
• The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness. Isaac Kramnick & R. Laurence Moore. Compare
• Alley, Robert S. (1999). The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573927031. 

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