Supreme Court sides with Catholic charity in tax case

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Supreme Court sides with Catholic charity in tax case A Catholic charity cited First Amendment religious rights in a tax dispute with Wisconsin authorities.

June 5, 2025, 10:21 AM EDT

By Jordan Rubin

The Supreme Court sided with a Catholic charity in a legal dispute with Wisconsin state authorities over unemployment benefit taxes. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion for the court cited the First Amendment’s mandate of “government neutrality between religions.”

As framed by the charity, the legal question in the case was whether a state violates the First Amendment by “denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for religious behavior.”

Catholic Charities Bureau argued that its