Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah

Hialeah passed its ordinances in 1987 specifically to stop a Lucumí church opening in the city. The Court's unanimous 1993 ruling is the single strongest legal protection the Afro-Caribbean diaspora traditions have in US law.

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (11 June 1993)

A 1993 US Supreme Court ruling that struck down a city's ban on animal sacrifice as religious discrimination against a Santería congregation.

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