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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lindsay Whitehurst

Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in religious-rights case over unemployment taxes

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The Supreme Court decided Thursday that a Catholic charity doesn’t have to pay Wisconsin unemployment taxes, one of a set of religious-rights cases the justices are considering this term.

The ruling comes in a case filed by the Catholic Charities Bureau, which says the state violated the First Amendment’s religious freedom guarantee when it required the organization to pay the tax while exempting other faith groups.

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