Venue: | SCOTUS |
Facts: | The Old Amish don't want their kids to go to the consolidated school past eighth grade, but WI has compulsory attendance. |
Posture: | Dunno. |
Issue: | Does this interfere with their free exercise? |
Holding: | Yes. |
Rule: | Free exercise trumps the states interest in universal compulsory education. |
Reasoning: | This blatantly interferes with their religious traditions.
And the Amish are kind of an exceptional case: law-abiding, productive, and withdrawn from society. |
Dicta: | |