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FIRST UNIT. CHURCH v. LOS ANGELES

No. 382.

357 U.S. 545 (1958)

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 30, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. L. Wirin argued the causes for petitioners. With him on the brief were Fred Okrand, Robert L. Brock and George T. Altman.

Gordon Boller argued the causes for respondents. With him on the brief was Harold W. Kennedy.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Harold Evans and Allen S. Olmsted, 2nd, for the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, and Claude C. Smith for the American Friends Service Committee, Inc., in No. 385, Kenneth W. Greenawalt for the American Civil Liberties Union, and Stanley A. Weigel and Frank B. Frederick for the First Methodist Church of San Leandro and the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley in Nos. 382 and 385.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are companion cases to Speiser v. Randall and Prince v. City and County of San Francisco, ante, p. 513. The petitioners claimed the property-tax exemption provided by Art. XIII, § 1 1/2, of the California Constitution for real property and buildings used solely and exclusively for religious worship. The Los Angeles assessor denied...

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