Legal Opinion
Larson v. Valente
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 1982No. 80-1666PublishedCited by 820 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
The principal question presented by this appeal is whether a Minnesota statute, imposing certain registration and reporting requirements upon only those religious organizations that solicit more than fifty per cent of their funds from nonmembers, discriminates against such organizations in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.1
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Appellants are John R. Larson, Commissioner of Securities, and Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, of the State of Minnesota. They are, by virtue of their offices, responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the Minnesota charitable…
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