Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah

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First Amendment case Free Exercise Clause case United States Supreme Court case landmark decision

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah is a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down city ordinances targeting Santería animal sacrifice and clarified that laws burdening religious practice must be neutral and generally applicable under the Free Exercise Clause.

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc.	1
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	First Amendment case ⓘ Free Exercise Clause case ⓘ United States Supreme Court case ⓘ landmark decision ⓘ
appliedToStatesThrough	Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ
areaOfLaw	constitutional law ⓘ law and religion ⓘ
arguedDate	1992-11-04 ⓘ
citation	508 U.S. 520 ⓘ
clarified	meaning of general applicability under the Free Exercise Clause ⓘ meaning of neutrality under the Free Exercise Clause ⓘ
concurrenceBy	Antonin Scalia ⓘ Byron R. White ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ David H. Souter ⓘ Blackmun ⓘ surface form: Harry A. Blackmun John Paul Stevens ⓘ Sandra Day O’Connor ⓘ William H. Rehnquist ⓘ
constitutionalProvision	First Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	1993-06-11 ⓘ
decisionType	unanimous decision ⓘ
docketNumber	91-948 ⓘ
foundOrdinances	not generally applicable ⓘ not neutral toward religion ⓘ
freeExerciseTest	laws targeting religion or religious practices trigger strict scrutiny ⓘ neutral and generally applicable laws do not require strict scrutiny ⓘ
fullName	Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah
holding	City ordinances targeting Santería animal sacrifice violated the Free Exercise Clause ⓘ Laws that are not neutral and generally applicable are subject to strict scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause ⓘ
impact	became leading precedent on religious discrimination in facially neutral laws ⓘ limited government ability to target specific religious practices ⓘ
jurisdiction	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
legalIssue	Free Exercise Clause ⓘ surface form: Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment general applicability requirement for laws burdening religion ⓘ neutrality requirement for laws burdening religion ⓘ
locationOfEvents	Hialeah, Florida ⓘ
majorityOpinionBy	Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ
petitioner	Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc.
precedentInterpreted	Employment Division v. Smith ⓘ
relatedReligion	Afro-Caribbean religions ⓘ surface form: Santería
respondent	Hialeah, Florida ⓘ surface form: City of Hialeah
standardOfReview	strict scrutiny ⓘ
subjectMatter	Santería religious practices ⓘ animal sacrifice ⓘ
subsequentCitationFrequency	high ⓘ
vote	9-0 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah → fullName → Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah

Free Exercise Clause → interpretedInCase → Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah ⓘ

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah → petitioner → Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc.