The U.S. Supreme Court on March 31 seemed inclined to side with a Wisconsin Catholic charity that argues it shouldn’t have to pay unemployment tax.
The nation’s highest court granted the petition in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission on Dec. 13, 2024.
During the hearing, the justices seemed concerned about a lower court ruling in which the court distinguished between religiously affiliated social welfare organizations that proselytize and those, like Catholic Charities, that do not.
Wisconsin law excuses religious organizations that are “operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or convention or association of churches” from paying state unemployment tax….