The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give a Catholic social ministry group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that […]

The Supreme Court has handed down a unanimous ruling in a religious rights case, finding a Catholic charity in Wisconsin can’t be required to pay unemployment taxes when other religious groups are exempt.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court had ruled that the group’s activities in serving the state’s poor were not religious enough to qualify for the exemption.