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National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom

09/29/2009: S&G successfully defends Amish right to refuse to submit a signed building permit application

Wisconsin court grants the motion of S&G client National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom to dismiss the Town of Albion's suit against Samuel Stoltzfus:

The court was satisfied by the briefs that were filed in this matter that he did indeed establish a sincerely held religious belief that prevented him from signing a permit application. When that occurs, the burden shifts to the township to establish a compelling state interest from enforcing a requirement that a permit application be submitted and signed. . . . The court does not believe that the township has offered a compelling governmental interest to overcome the objection raised by Mr. Stolzfus on religious grounds.

This case of constitutional dimension is a case probably not only important to our community and our county and – and the State of Wisconsin, it is probably a case that has potential for national consequences.

Transcript of September 29, 2009 Hearing, Jackson County Circuit Court, Wisconsin.

06/23/2008: Brief Filed in Wisconsin for National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom

Storzer & Greene and Black River Falls attorney, Ken Artis, today filed a brief seeking to have the National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom intervene in a case in which the town of Albion, Wisconsin, is seeking fines ranging from $25.00 to $1,000.00 per day from an Amish farmer who did not obtain a building permit for his home, a house which he built according to Amish traditional techniques.

According to the brief, the Committee will attempt to intervene in the case to protect the right of religious freedom for the Amish under both the Wisconsin and the United States Constitution. Greene, the attorney representing the Committee, said[,] "This is a value of the very highest order."

“Amish farmer may get national legal help in permit case,” Megan VerHelst, Jackson County Chronicle (July 15, 2008).