The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether religious affiliated entities like Catholic Charities should be exempt from state unemployment taxes, taking up its first major religion case in more than a year.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state's unemployment insurance tax in a case with potential implications for constitutional religious rights.

The US Supreme Court will take up a new test of religious rights, agreeing to consider a bid by a charitable arm of the Catholic Church for an exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment tax.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a Catholic charitable group’s quest to qualify for Wisconsin’s religious exemption from the state’s unemployment tax system. Wisconsin exempts employers “operated primarily for religious purposes” but contests that Catholic Charities Bureau meets the criteria,