Supreme Court to weigh Catholic Church-affiliated charitable group's bid for religious tax exemption

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case about whether a charitable group linked with the Catholic Church can claim a religious exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment tax system. The Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior appealed after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in March that its activities are not religious in purpose, meaning the various groups it controls could not obtain the same exemption that strictly religious entities can get. The case concerns whether being forced to pay the tax would violate the Constitution’s...