Supreme Court of the United States
Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue
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- Type
- Dissent
- Filed
- June 30, 2020
- Case
- Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue
- Case status
- Decided
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Justice SOTOMAYOR, dissenting. The majority holds that a Montana scholarship program unlawfully discriminated against religious schools by excluding them from a tax benefit. The threshold problem, however, is that such tax benefits no longer exist for anyone in the State. The Montana Supreme Court invalidated the program on state-law grounds, thereby foreclosing the as-applied challenge petitioners raise here. Indeed, nothing req…
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Other writings in this case
| Type | Author | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| Lead opinion | John Glover Roberts Jr. | June 30, 2020 |
| Lead opinion | Not attributed | June 30, 2020 |
| Concurrence | Not attributed | June 30, 2020 |
| Concurrence | Clarence Thomas | June 30, 2020 |
| Concurrence | Samuel A. Alito Jr. | June 30, 2020 |
| Concurrence | Neil M. Gorsuch | June 30, 2020 |
| Dissent | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | June 30, 2020 |
| Dissent | Stephen Gerald Breyer | June 30, 2020 |
| Dissent | Sonia Sotomayor | June 30, 2020 |