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Showing posts with label Baptist. Show all posts
Thursday, August 07, 2025

5th Circuit: Anti-Vax Belief in Bodily Autonomy Can Support Title VII Religious Discrimination Claim

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In Wright v. Honeywell International, Inc .,  (5th Cir., Aug. 5, 2025), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's d...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Sex Discrimination Claim by Pastor Applicant

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In Turman v. Abyssinian Baptist Church , (SD NY, March 31, 2025), a New York federal district court held that the ministerial exception doct...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Court Preliminarily Enjoins Enforcement Against Plaintiffs of New Guidelines for Immigration Raids at Churches

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In Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security ,  (D MD, Feb. 24, 2025), a Maryl...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply To Pastor's Defamation Suit

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In Garner v. Southern Baptist Convention ,  (TN App., Jan. 8. 2025), a Tennessee state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical abstenti...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Missouri Appeals Court Refers Question of Church's Duty of Supervision to State Supreme Court

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 In Doe v. First Baptist Church of Pierce City, Missouri ,  (MO App., Sept. 2, 2023), a Missouri appellate court described plaintiff's c...
Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Disclosure of Covid Status to Plaintiff's Pastor Did Not Infringe Privacy or Free Exercise Rights

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In Fulmore v. City of Englewood ,  (NJ App., Aug. 30, 2024), a New Jersey appellate court dismissed a suit brought by an employee of the cit...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Christian Food Ministry Sues to End City's Attempts to Close It Down

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 Last week, a Yuma County, Arizona Baptist church filed suit in an Arizona federal district court challenging actions the city of San Luis h...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Court Supervision of Church Election Invalidated by Mississippi Supreme Court

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In Melton v. Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church ,  (MS Sup. Ct., Jan. 11, 2024), the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and vacated a deci...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Negligence Claims Against Religious Boarding School Barred by Establishment Clause

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In Drew v. Householder , (WD MO, Dec. 19, 2023), plaintiff sued Circle of Hope Boarding School, a fundamentalist Baptist school for girls, a...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

2nd Circuit Remands Free Exercise Claim of Inmate Who Could Not Attend Religious Services

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In Wiggins v. Griffin ,  (2d Cir., Nov. 20, 2023), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a New York federal district co...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

European Court Says Russian Regulation of Proselytizing Violated Human Rights Convention

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In  Ossewaarde v. Russia , (ECHR, March 7, 2023), the European Court of Human Rights held that legal restrictions imposed by Russia in 2016 ...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Justice Department Initiates Investigation Of Sex Abuse By Southern Baptist Clergy And Executives

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Baptist Press reported yesterday that the Justice Department has informed the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention that i...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Report Finds Southern Baptist Convention Mishandled Sexual Abuse Allegations

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Yesterday, the report of an independent investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s Response to Sexual Abuse Al...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Report On Role Of Christian Nationalism In January 6 Insurrection Released

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Yesterday, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) and the Freedom From Religion Foundation released a report titled Christ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Defamation Suit Filed By Prominent Pastor Against Former Southern Baptist Ethics Commission Head

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Suit was filed this week in a Tennessee federal district court by Michael Stone, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor of a congregation in Ge...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Cert. Petition Filed In Ecclesiastical Abstention Case

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptis...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Kamala Harris Has Varied Religious Background

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  Religion News Service reports on the broad exposure to various religious faiths experienced by Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic n...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

5th Circuit Says Fired Employee's Suit Does Not Necessarily Require Deciding Ecclesiastical Questions

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In McRaney v. North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. ,  (5th Cir., July 16, 2020), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Ukrainian Region Bans Baptist Books, Including Gospel of John

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In the Luhansk region of Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels have proclaimed the Luhansk People's Republic.  It is not recognized internationall...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Defamation Suit Dismissed On Ecclesiastical Abstention Grounds

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In McRaney v. North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention , (ND MS, April 22, 2019), a Mississippi federal district cour...