civil-authority

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-164 Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia Virginia 2021-08-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (10) church-autonomy church-state-separation civil-authority civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech ministerial-exception ministerial-exemption property-tax religious-doctrine religious-freedom Whether civil authorities violate the First Amendment when they engage in their own interpretation of church doctrine to overrule a church's determina…