Sherbert v. Verner/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Sherbert v. Verner.

A 1963 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding unemployment compensation benefits in which the Court established a fourfold test for evaluating claims of undue governmental infringement of a person's religious belief, a set of criteria which subsequently became known as the Sherbert Test.