Analysis of Catholic Charities Case before SCOTUS

Join the Milwaukee Federalist Society on Tuesday, April 8th for a luncheon about Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, a case currently pending before the United States Supreme Court. On March 30th, the Court will hear oral arguments about this case which emanates from the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision finding that Catholic Charities’ entities in northern Wisconsin did not qualify for a religious tax exemption because their activities were not “operated primarily for religious purposes.” In a lengthy dissent, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecaa Grassl Bradley described the majority’s ruling as forcing courts into the “constitutionally tenuous position of second-guessing the religious significance and character of a nonprofit’s actions.”

The featured speaker will be Amanda Salz, an attorney with The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty which is representing the Catholic Charities Bureau at the United States Supreme Court. She will additionally offer her reflections on the United States Supreme Court’s trajectory on recent religious liberty cases. Prior to joining Becket, Attorney Salz clerked for Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Reed C. O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

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