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14 Nov 2023, 9:05 pm by Caroline Hackley
Opponents, alternatively, partnered with existing organizations, including the Catholic Church and the American Medical Association, to speak out against the legalization of physician-assisted death with the apparent backing of authoritative institutions. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it filed 784 total enforcement actions in fiscal year 2023, a 3 percent increase over fiscal year 2022, including 501 original, or “stand-alone,” enforcement actions, an 8 percent increase over the prior fiscal year. [read post]
SEC Charges Middlesex Mortgage Group and Masanotti with Running $5.9 Million Ponzi Scheme The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has alleged that unregistered investment adviser John A. Masanotti, Jr. (“Masanotti” of Darien, Connecticut and his company, Middlesex Mortgage Group LLC (“MMG”), with fraud in connection with investments that MMC induced from outside investors, totaling least $5.9 million, beginning in 2016. Many of the MMG investors allegedly liquidated securities they held in retirement accounts to invest in the fund. The SEC Complaint is accessible here. According to the SEC. MMC and Masanotti allegedly used investor money to make Ponzi-like payments to investors and also used some investor funds for Masanotti’s “extravagant personal expenses,” According to the SEC, Masanotti told investors that MMC would invest their money in foreign currencies, securities and initial public offerings, but in fact MMC appears to have made no investments on their behalf. After receiving their initial payments, Masanotti continued to deceive investors to perpetuate the investment scheme, including via payments that purported to be returns on capital invested, the SEC said. Over the course of the scheme, Masanotti allegedly used more than $3 million of Middlesex’s assets for his and his family’s personal benefit, according to the suit. The SEC accuses Masanotti of violating the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. A Ponzi scheme is a purported investment vehicle in which early investors in the scheme are paid funds from later investors, thus creating the illusion of legitimacy and solvency. Ponzi schemes are often doomed to failure once the perpetrator of the scheme can no longer pay out investors through newly raised money. Some warning signs that every investor should remain mindful of when vetting a potential investment and conducting due diligence include the promise of high returns with guarantees of little or no risk; overly consistent returns with little or no volatility in the in
14 Nov 2023, 4:30 pm by InvestorLawyers
Some warning signs that every investor should remain mindful of when vetting a potential investment and conducting due diligence include the promise of high returns with guarantees of little or no risk; overly consistent returns with little or no volatility in the investment; marketing through friends and family or through an affinity group such as a church, workplace or community organization; unregistered investments; and am unlicensed seller or promoter. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 6:03 am by Eugene Volokh
She argues that, because the Court "does not have subject matter jurisdiction over the plausibility of spiritual practices," its August 8, 2023 Memorandum Decision and Order is void … ("The Court intentionally erred in denouncing tarot readings and [Defendant's] spiritual connection as a spiritual practice for the purpose of overstepping the separation of the Church and State as  required by Federal laws and the First Amendment of the United States… [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 4:09 pm by Whittel & Melton, LLC
  Police responded to the area of West Hillsborough Avenue and North Church Street before 8:30 a.m. [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 12:10 pm by Thomas B. Griffith
When acting as a judge, Judge Garcia’s primary loyalty will not be to his family, his political sensibilities, his friends, or his church, but to “the Constitution and laws of the United States,” to which he promises that he “will bear true faith and allegiance,” and will “support and defend . . . against all enemies, foreign and domestic. [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 9:12 am by jonathanturley
I likely do not share Johnson’s views on legislating morality or the separation of church and state. [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 3:00 am by The Nonprofit Blogger Named Below
We have previously blogged about the "ministerial" exception to anti-discrimination laws prohibiting even churches and other worship entities from discriminating on the basis of race, gender, or orientation. [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 8:26 am by Paul Caron
: Three men have filed a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — also known as the LDS, or Mormon church — and its investment arm, Ensign... [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 6:22 am
"He described them with an apparently self-created word — 'indietristi,' or backward-looking people — and argued that they don’t understand how faith and morals can evolve. 'Those American groups you talk about, so closed, are isolating themselves,' the pope said.... 'Instead of living by doctrine, by the true doctrine that always develops and bears fruit, they live by ideologies.'... [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 6:17 am by Frank Cranmer
Safeguarding in the Church of England The Church of England has announced the appointment of a new interim chair and vice-chair for the National Safeguarding Panel: General Synod member Kashmir Garton and church abuse survivor, Jane Chevous, who founded the group, Survivors Voices. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 2:44 pm by lennyesq
BY CHRISSY STROOP For those who have been following it, the saga of the banned drag show fundraiser at West Texas A&M took a new twist on Wednesday when Andrew Seidel—a constitutional lawyer, RD senior correspondent, and vice president of strategic communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State—paid a visit to West Texas A&M to give a supportive address to the student groups fighting the ban. *** Seidel also addressed the history and… [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 10:52 am by Samuel Bray
Noel Cox, The Influence of the Common Law on the Decline of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Church of England, 3 Rutgers J. [read post]
The petition was launched on November 1 by ten bishops of the Catholic Church that hail from various countries, including the US, Australia, India and Nigeria. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
After the church's executive board received complaints against the pastor, the church entered a severance agreement with the pastor. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 4:26 pm by INFORRM
The applicant, Amvrosios-Athanasios Lenis, was at the time a Greek Metropolitan who headed two Greek Orthodox Church provinces in Greece. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 2:04 pm by Tom Kosakowski
Williamson has been named the inaugural Ombuds for LPTS, a seminary in Kentucky affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 10:11 am by Howard Bashman
“Maine’s Catholic church, victims of child sex abuse take constitutionality question to state supreme court; Maine’s highest court will decide whether to keep a 2021 law, which allows people to file claims of childhood sexual abuse that were previously expired under a statute of limitations”: Emily Allen of The Portland Press Herald has this report. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 4:30 am by The Nonprofit Blogger Named Below
Sam has a concise primer out yesterday on the alleged fraud by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — also known as the LDS, or Mormon church. [read post]
8 Nov 2023, 9:42 pm by Cari Rincker
Your beneficiaries may include your spouse or partner, children and stepchildren, grandchildren, other relatives, friends, charitable organizations, and your church. [read post]