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SHERBERT v. VERNER

No. 526.

374 U.S. 398 (1963)

SHERBERT v. VERNER ET AL., MEMBERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 17, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Donnelly argued the cause and filed briefs for appellant.

Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General of South Carolina, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief was Victor S. Evans, Assistant Attorney General.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Morris B. Abram, Edwin J. Lukas, Arnold Forster, Melvin L. Wulf, Paul Hartman, Theodore Leskes and Sol Rabkin for the American Jewish Committee et al., and by Leo Pfeffer, Lewis H. Weinstein, Albert Wald, Shad Polier, Ephraim S. London, Samuel Lawrence Brennglass and Jacob Sheinkman for the Synagogue Council of America et al.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant, a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was discharged by her South Carolina employer because she would not work on Saturday, the Sabbath Day of her faith.1 When she was unable to obtain other employment because from conscientious scruples she would not take Saturday work,2 she filed a claim for

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