City of Boerne v. Flores, No. 95-2074 (U.S. Supreme Court) (521 U.S. 507; 117 S.Ct. 2157) (June 25, 1997) (Justice Kennedy)
The Supreme Court decided that, in enacting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), Congress had
impermissibly attempted to expand the scope of substantive constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by subjecting generally applicable state laws that had the effect of burdening religion to a higher level of judicial scrutiny than ...
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