Holding: A lower court invalidated Catholic and religious hospitals' longstanding exemption from federal pension law (ERISA) on the grounds that the hospitals were not operated by the Church itself but by church-associated religious groups.
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Dignity Health v. United States is a Free Exercise case in 2015. The court held that a lower court invalidated Catholic and religious hospitals' longstanding exemption from federal pension law (ERISA) on the grounds that the hospitals were not operated by the Church itself but by church-associated religious groups.