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BARR v. CITY OF SINTON

No. 06-0074.

295 S.W.3d 287 (2009)

Pastor Rick BARR and Philemon Homes, Inc., Petitioners, v. CITY OF SINTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 19, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Ho (argued), Mark Whitburn, Scott H. Mellon, Michael Sean Royall, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, TX, Kelly J. Shackelford, Hiram S. Sasser III, Jonathan M. Saenz, Liberty Legal Institute, Plano, TX, Bradford M. Condit, Corpus Christi, TX, Michael Casey Matox, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, VA, for Petitioners.

Carlos Villarreal (argued), James F. McKibben, Jr., Brian Charles Miller, Hermansen, McKibben, Woolsey & Villarreal, Corpus Christi, TX, for Respondent.

Allyson Newton Ho, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Houston, TX, Jay Alan Sekulow, Erik M. Zimmerman, American Center for Law & Justice, Virginia Beach, VA, Loren Jacobson, Waters & Kraus, LLP, Dallas, TX, Douglas Laycock, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, for Amicus Curiae.

Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (TRFRA) provides that "a government agency may not substantially burden a person's free exercise of religion [unless it] demonstrates that the application of the burden to the person . . . is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest [and] is the least restrictive means of furthering that interest."1 TRFRA does not immunize religious...

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