CALLAHAN v. WOODS

No. 79-4612.

658 F.2d 679 (1981)

Robert Dale CALLAHAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Marion WOODS, Director California Dept. of Benefit Payments and Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1981.

Rehearing Denied January 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jaroslovsky, Santa Rosa, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leonard Schaitman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before ADAMS, GOODWIN and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.


ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal we are asked to determine whether the state and federal governments, in requiring Robert D. Callahan to obtain a social security number for his daughter before she could obtain public assistance benefits, even though procuring such a number would contravene what appellant asserts is a sincere religious belief, violated his First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. Because the district court, 479...

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