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21 Mar 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The summons were issued on the complaint of a private citizen-- a former member of the Mormon church who runs a website critical of the church. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 6:38 pm by Reproductive Rights
The New York Times - opinion column: Arizona Did Us All a Favor, by Timothy Egan: YOU’RE a fundamentalist Mormon — that is, the breakaway sect, not recognized by the main church, with a scary compound in Northern Arizona. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witness, Christian Science, Unification Church, Zen Buddhism, Unitarianism, and United Pentecostal. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Kerns Jr., Protecting the Faithful From Their Faith: A Proposal for Snake-Handling Law in West Virginia, [Abstract], 116 West Virginia Law Review 561-581 (2013).Monica Youn, Proposition 8 and the Mormon Church: A Case Study in Donor Disclosure, 81 George Washington Law Revies 2108-2154 (2013). [read post]
16 Feb 2014, 5:03 pm by Nate Oman
  The failure of the Illinois period to produce a pool of Mormon wealth was exacerbated by the fact that after Smith’s murder the Mormon church splintered. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 3:06 pm by Daria Roithmayr
The most recent Mormon converts are black (the church didn't accept black men as priests until 1978) and brown, haling from the US and various Latin American and African countries. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
Despite his disappointment, Wilkinson stayed loyal to the LDS Church, BYU, and the law school, even though he did not get to play a greater role in the development of the BYU Law School. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 12:14 pm by Tom Smith
A British magistrate has issued an extraordinary summons to the worldwide leader of the Mormon church alleging that its teachings about mankind amount to fraud. [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
The summonses allege that Stephen Bloor, a former Mormon bishop, and Christopher Denis Ralph, a former convert, were misled by Mormon teachings to pay an annual tithe to the Church. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 10:05 am
(I doubt that English courts could directly force Monson to appear, but the Mormon church doubtless has property in England, over which English courts do have jurisdiction.) [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 10:45 am by Simon Fodden
Mormons, and churches of all stripes care about such things as marriage — and sometimes hold beliefs about them that are at odds with those of civil society. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 5:30 pm by Lyle Denniston
That is a state that is dominated, in religious and even in some political sense, by the Mormon Church. [read post]
Reynolds was decided during the monumental battle between the federal government and the Mormon Church, or more accurately, against Mormon polygamy. [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 4:30 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
 Late Friday afternoon, a federal judge struck a portion of Utah's anti-polygamy law in the Browns' federal law suit against the State of Utah.Judge Clark Waddoups released a 90-page decision in the case; a virtual tour de force of the law of privacy, the First Amendment, marital law and polygamy within the Mormon Church in Utah. [read post]
14 Dec 2013, 9:41 pm by Lyle Denniston
   Polygamy is most often associated in this country with Mormonism, although the church long ago outlawed it among its members. [read post]
14 Dec 2013, 1:35 am by David Kopel
Sims, “Polygamy has always been odious among the northern and western nations of Europe, and, until the establishment of the Mormon Church, was almost exclusively a feature of the life of Asiatic and of African people. [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 7:45 am by Eugene Volokh
But whether or not it was right (or constitutional under modern standards) for the federal government to pressure Mormons to abandon polygamy, my sense is that the Mormon Church and the nation as a whole is stronger as a result of the Church’s accommodation to mainstream American norms on this subject. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 2:11 pm by Eugene Volokh
But if denying employees a certain benefit is an Establishment-Clause-violating burden, then I don’t think that it becomes any less of a burden when the employees work for nonprofits (such as the Mormon Church gymnasium involved in Amos). [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Ct., Nov. 26, 2013), the Idaho Supreme Court held that neither the Mormon Church nor various individual Ward members are liable for broken ankle suffered by a 13-year old girl in jumping from a bridge during a camp out organized by Ward members of the Church. [read post]