Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division

Jehovah's Witness Eddie C. Thomas (plaintiff), transferred within Blaw-Knox Foundry & Machinery Company (defendant) to a department producing military tank turrets, quit rather than help produce war materials, though he hadn't objected to making raw steel sheets in the roll foundry since he wasn't directly creating weapons of war. The Review Board (defendant) denied his unemployment claim, and Indiana's Supreme Court agreed, reasoning Thomas's objection was personal rather than religious because he struggled to articulate his beliefs and other Jehovah's Witnesses at the plant had no similar objection; Thomas petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review.