Catholic Charities Case before the U.S. Supreme Court

On March 30th, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, which emanates from the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision holding 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…