Larson v. Valente
United States Supreme Court
456 U.S. 228 (1982)
Minnesota's charitable-solicitation law required extra registration and reporting only from religious organizations soliciting more than 50 percent of their funds from nonmembers, exempting organizations below that threshold; state official Larson (defendant) notified the Unification Church that it fell under the law's extra requirements, and its members Valente and others (plaintiffs) sued, claiming the fifty-percent rule discriminated among religious denominations in violation of the Establishment Clause.
Whether a state statute that imposes certain registration and reporting requirements upon certain religious organizations discriminates against such organizations in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.