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11 May 2016, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Sassafras Grove Baptist Church, (NC App., May 10, 2016), the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that neither the ministerial exception doctrine nor the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine bars a minister from suing his church for contractually promised disability compensation and benefits. [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 6:00 am
The Dallas Morning News and the Associated Baptist Press report on a defamation lawsuit filed against the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the Baptist Standard and several other defendants by Rev. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 12:16 am
The suit charges that defendants infringed the freedom of speech, association and free exercise of religion of Faith Baptist Church and of a Christian rock band playing there. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 6:52 am by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
” The leadership at New Red Mountain Missionary Baptist Church in Durham may have ignored, humiliated and laughed at their treasurer Norman Glenn when he pushed them to undergo an audit, but they didn’t spit in his food. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 1:59 pm by Patricia Salkin
Immanuel Baptist Church v City of Chicago, 2017 WL 4224617 (ND IL 9/22/2017)Filed under: RLUIPA, Uncategorized [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 12:15 am
AP reported yesterday on the move by Lyons who was forced out as president of the denomination in 1999 after he was charged with stealing for personal use some $4 million of the church group's funds. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Both Baptist News Global and ProPublica have recently published lengthy investigative articles on the growing number of non-profit entities that have sought classification by the IRS as a "church" or "association of churches" or an "integrated auxiliary of a church. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 8:54 am
The bus was carrying a youth group from the FIrst Baptist Church of Shreveport to an event in Macon, GA. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 7:25 am by Howard Friedman
In the case in which review has been granted, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the Westboro Baptist Church and its leaders that a $5 million judgment against them growing out of their picketing of the funeral of Iraq veteran Matthew Snyder violated their free speech rights. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 4:38 am by Howard Friedman
., April 1, 2011), the Kentucky Court of Appeal dismissed a lawsuit brought by members of a Baptist church complaining, among other things, that defendants were not reporting to members on the church's financial affairs. the Court of Appeals held that, based on the First Amendment, it lacked jurisdiction over the complaint because: "The Church’s financial records and method of presentation to the congregation are clearly matters… [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 11:23 am by K. Hollyn Hollman
Hollyn Hollman is the general counsel and associate executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, which filed an amicus brief in support of the state of Missouri. [read post]
5 Mar 2016, 4:44 pm by Howard Friedman
In 2014, a Missouri federal district court rejected a vagueness challenge mounted by the Westboro Baptist Church to Missouri statutes that banned protest activities within three hundred feet of a funeral. [read post]
5 Aug 2007, 4:30 am
Today's Palm Beach Post reports that jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in a suit against a West Palm Beach (FL) Baptist church and its former pastor. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
., Dec. 11, 2019), an Indiana state appellate court dismissed a suit seeking to enforce a suspension imposed by the Board of Directors of a Baptist church on its pastor. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 7:29 am by Anthony Lake
Donny Ray Horton of Hoschton, Georgia, a minister at Gardendale First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was sentenced to five years imprisonment yesterday in the U.S. [read post]