Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith

In Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990), however, the court held that the balancing test must be abandoned because it “would create an extraordinary right to ignore generally applicable laws that are not supported by ‘compelling governmental interest’ on the basis…

…RFRA came three years after Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990), in which the Supreme Court ruled that a state could deny unemployment benefits to members of the Native American Church who had been fired from their jobs because they ingested peyote for sacramental purposes;…