Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Ore. v. Smith

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1990-04-17

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*874 Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to decide whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment permits the State of Oregon to include religiously inspired peyote use within the reach of its general criminal prohibition on use of that dr…

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