U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Catholic Charity’s Religious Exemption From Wisconsin Unemployment Tax

In a 9-0 decision authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which held that Catholic Charities Bureau Inc. (the “Charities) and its subsidiaries were not exempt from making payments to the state’s unemployment insurance program. The Wisconsin Court held that the group’s work was not religious. The U.S. Supreme Court held that denying the exemption violates the First Amendment