Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

City and County of San Francisco v. Gaudiya Vaishnava Society

504 U.S. 914

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1992-05-18
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • “a law cannot condition the free exercise of First Amendment rights on the ‘unbridled discretion’ of government officials.”
  • where pure speech and commercial speech inextricably intertwined, the entire speech must be classified as fully protected noncommercial speech
  • punitive damages not available in “simple” breach of labor contract cases, i.e., those which are “uncomplicated by evidence of fraud or other tortious misconduct”
  • "Where there is a collective bargaining agreement providing grievance procedures for a covered dispute, those procedures must be used...."

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.