Legal Opinion
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Assn.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 19, 1988No. 86-1013PublishedCited by 947 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This case requires us to consider whether the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause prohibits the Government from permitting timber harvesting in, or constructing a road through, a portion of a National Forest that has tradi*442tionally been used for religious purposes by members of three American Indian tribes in northwestern California. We conclude that it does not.
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As part of a project to create a paved 75-mile road linking two California towns, Gasquet and Orleans, the United States Forest Service has upgraded 49 miles of previously unpaved roads on federal land. In order to complete this…
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