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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

Deeds Done in the Dark

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Heritage Foundation

Government

4.5527 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Case in Point, Sarah Parshall Perry talks with Ian Prior, Senior advisor to America First Legal about the power of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), AFL's investigations using the FOIA tool to unearth government corruption, and what it's like to fight for the safety, privacy, and free speech rights of school children at the grassroots level. That, and a rundown of three new, high profile cert. grants from the Supreme Court on this week's episode of Case in Point.  

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.0

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place of the card.

0:07.7

Welcome to this week's edition of Case and Point, the legal show for regular people.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Sarah Partial Perry, a senior legal fellow here at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

0:19.7

This is your cool, fast-paced regular legal show,

0:23.9

not one of those wonky, lawyer-speak legal shows. And we're glad you're here because we have

0:29.7

some SCOTUS news to share with you three huge certs, that is, cert, a petition for for review that is granted by the Supreme Court.

0:41.0

And remember, the Supreme Court gets hundreds of cases every year.

0:45.0

So every cert grant is a big cert grant, but let me tell you about three of the biggest that have

0:50.6

just come down in the past 48 hours.

0:54.0

The first is a case called Catholic Charities Bureau versus Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review

0:59.8

Commission.

1:00.8

It comes down to this question.

1:03.0

Did the state of Wisconsin violate the First Amendment religious freedom clause by denying

1:09.2

a Catholic group, a tax exemption from state income tax,

1:14.1

because it determined the group didn't meet the state's criteria for religious activity.

1:20.8

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin said that Catholic charities didn't proselytize. It didn't share

1:27.0

its religious views or try to make converts,

1:30.2

and it also employed people who were not Catholic. So in the view of the Supreme Court of

1:37.9

the state of Wisconsin, this was not an entirely religious organization. But at this point, they're going to be high stakes.

1:47.0

It's going to change the face, potentially, of state tax deductions for religious organizations going to the future.

1:55.0

And it pits tax law in the states against the Constitution's free exercise of religion protection, big religious liberty

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