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23 Mar 2019, 6:46 pm by Howard Friedman
” Williams conceded she was able to leave but risked being disfellowshipped if she did....Allowing Williams’s claims in this case to be litigated would require the district court to unconstitutionally inject itself into substantive ecclesiastical matters. [read post]
23 Mar 2019, 4:27 pm
Ct. 360 (2018) (mem.); First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City v. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 12:49 pm by Jason Brown
For many couples, divorce is both a legal and a religious matter. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 10:19 am by Andrew Flusche
The good news is that in most courts you’d be immediately eligible for a restricted driver’s license to let you drive for work, school, childcare, church, etc. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 6:06 am by John Sipher
In 2018, a series of suicide bombings targeting churches rocked the city of Surabaya, with the sophisticated bombs carried by children as young as 9 years old. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 7:13 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 33895 (SD OH, March 4, 2019), in a lengthy opinion, an Ohio federal district court in denying a preliminary injunction upheld a prison's prohibiting inmate access to material of the Christian Separatist Church. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
As a whole, the reports and letter constitute a matter of internal church discipline, and the statements contained within the documents are incapable of extrapolation from the overall ecclesiastical nature of the documents. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 12:18 pm by Belinda S. Morgan
As noted in a recent ABA Journal article, “[w]ords matter, and they reflect the mindset of their drafter. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 5:41 am
In WaPo.Carlson was widely criticized on Sunday following a report from the nonprofit Media Matters for America that compiled and transcribed more than a dozen instances of the host appearing on the “Bubba the Love Sponge Show,” a popular radio program broadcast from Tampa [recorded between 2006 and 2011]...On at least two separate occasions, Carlson voiced opinions on underage marriage and Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of… [read post]
10 Mar 2019, 7:02 am by Howard Friedman
[T]he constitutional imperative against encroaching on a church’s selection of its ministers does not, as a logical matter, suggest that churches must be exempted from all laws that would regulate the employment relationship between a religious institution and its ministers. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 11:25 am by Shorstein, Lasnetski & Gihon
In Matter of Valdez, 27 I&N Dec. 496 (BIA 2018), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decided the case of A.J. and Z. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 2:38 am by Lyle Denniston
On Monday morning, a crowd – no one knows for sure how big it will be – will gather at a church in Phoenix to start a three-day, 38-mile hike to visit sites symbolic in the history of Arizona women. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 8:12 pm
It is my great pleasure to pass along the announcement of the publication of Joel Slawotsky's excellent article: "The National Security Exception in US-China FDI and Trade: Lessons from Delaware Corporate Law" which appears in the The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 6(2):228–264.In this new era defined by the re-creation of global regional economic blocks--one centered in China, and the other in the United States, the issue of national interest in the areas where the two… [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 9:13 am by Daniel Shaviro
This strikes me as exactly the sort of thing that the Establishment Clause is supposed to inhibit.As Reinhold’s article notes, one counter-argument is that we actually have a broader category of exempt housing, akin to the broader section 501(c)(3) that I noted above with respect to exempting churches from federal income tax and allowing charitable contribution deductions to those who donate to them. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Jonathan Spontarelli
In return, aldermen are allowed to reign over matters large and small in their wards, which some openly describe as “fiefdoms. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 9:49 am by Eugene Volokh
Under this approach, the question is not whether the government is "endorsing," "coercing," or "proselytizing" in matters of religion. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 5:42 am by Eugene Volokh
Keefe, 402 U.S. 415, 91 S.Ct. 1575, 29 L.Ed.2d 1 (1971), activists who disapproved of a real estate agent's (apparently lawful) behavior repeatedly leafleted near where he lived and went to church, demanding that he change his practices. [read post]