Legal Opinion
Dotter v. Maine Employment Security Commission
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 19, 1981PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODFREY, Justice.
The Maine Employment Security Commission appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court ordering that Mark Dotter be granted unemployment benefits following his resignation from Thornton Academy. On appeal the Commission argues that the presiding justice erred as a matter of law in concluding that to deny Dotter unemployment benefits would violate his First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. We affirm the judgment.
Since May of 1972 appellee Mark A. Dot-ter has been a member of the Divine Light Mission, a religious faith currently headed by Guru Maharaji. During…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security DivisionSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- People v. WoodyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1964
- Jerry Teterud v. Kevin J. Burns, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director of the Department of Social Services for the State of IowaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
- Lewis, Mamie A. v. Califano, Joseph, Jr., Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (d.c. Civil No. 78-0861)Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Herr v. Maine (In Re Herr)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Maine · 1983
- Blount v. Department of Educational & Cultural ServicesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1988
- Potvin v. Seven Elms, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1993
- Flynn v. Maine Employment Security CommissionSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1982
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