Today in Supreme Court History: June 11, 1993

6/11/1993: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah decided.

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[Dan Schiavetta]

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (decided June 11, 1993): ordinance prohibiting unnecessary killing of animal in ceremony not for use as food (Santería) struck down as violating church's First Amendment rights

Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, 584 U.S. --- (decided June 11, 2018): Ohio's presumption that voters who don't return card and don't vote for four years have moved (and are therefore stricken from the rolls) upheld as consistent with National Voter Registration Act of 1993

Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (decided June 11, 2001): police needed warrant to use thermal-imaging device to detect high-intensity lamps (used to grow marijuana in a house; I had a friend who used to do that) because device not in general public use and revealed information otherwise unobtainable without physical intrusion

United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (decided June 11, 1990): struck down another flag desecration law (like Texas v. Johnson) on First Amendment grounds; unlike in Johnson, this one did not require that flag desecration be associated with a political message (Doonesbury had a good comic strip on this: the first panel had an American flag and Mike Doonesbury dared readers to throw the newspaper out, unavoidably desecrating the flag and committing a crime)

Bluefield Water Works v. Public Service Comm'n, 262 U.S. 679 (decided June 11, 1923): vacating order setting public utility's rates so low that it wouldn't earn a return on property as a Fifth Amendment "taking"

China Agritech Inc. v. Resh, 584 U.S. --- (decided June 11, 2018): failure-to-get-class-certification tolling of statute of limitations available to putative class members to sue on their own does not apply to future attempts at class action

Nix v. United States, 467 U.S. 431 (decided June 11, 1984): evidence is not excluded which would have been discovered anyway despite police misconduct (body would have been found anyway even though told to police when being denied right to counsel)

Paine Lumber Co. v. Neal, 244 U.S. 459 (decided June 11, 1917): under Sherman Act private parties cannot go to court to stop alleged restraint on trade (here, windowmaking companies trying to stop a union boycott)