• City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the scope of Congress's power...
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    The city is noted for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case City of Boerne v. Flores. Founded in 1849 as "Tusculum", the name was changed to "Boerne" when...
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    Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal (2006) and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014). In response to City of Boerne v. Flores and...
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    June 12, 2013. City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997). Flores, 521 U.S., at 520. "Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Ed. Expense Bd. v. College Savings...
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    state, and local governments. In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court in City of Boerne v. Flores held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act only applies to...
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    the "congruence and proportionality" test, first discussed in City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997). Because the Fourteenth Amendment allows Congress...
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    City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997) Steven A. Engel (October 1, 1999). "The McCulloch theory of the Fourteenth Amendment: City of Boerne v....
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    a person's free exercise of religion. It was held unconstitutional as applied to the states in the City of Boerne v. Flores decision in 1997, which ruled...
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  • Michael W. McConnell (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit)
    Persecution or Protection of the Rights of Conscience?: A Critique of Justice Scalia's Historical *Arguments in City of Boerne v. Flores, 39 William and Mary...
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  • referred to as the Sherbert Test. However, the Supreme Court held in City of Boerne v. Flores that the law was unconstitutional because its enhanced Sherbert...
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