Ran-Dav's County Kosher, Inc. v. State

The Court today holds that New Jersey’s regulations preventing consumer fraud in the sale of kosher products are facially unconstitutional. The determination whether either the church or the State has intruded impermissibly “into the precincts of the other,” Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 614, 91 S.Ct. 2105, 2112, 29 L.Ed.2d 745, 756 (1971), is profoundly important and often exceedingly difficult. The danger we seek to avoid stems from the belief that “a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.” Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 431, 82 S.Ct. 1261,…