Braunfeld v. Brown
United States Supreme Court
366 U.S. 599 (1961)
Relevant factsFree
Pennsylvania's Sunday closing law required all businesses to close on Sundays; a group of Orthodox Jewish merchants (plaintiffs), whose faith required them to close on Saturdays instead, challenged the law as putting them at a severe competitive disadvantage by forcing them to lose two business days each week rather than one.
IssueFree
Whether a generally applicable law that indirectly and economically burdens a religious practice violates the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause.