Showing posts with label Child abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child abuse. Show all posts
Friday, July 12, 2024

United Methodist Church Is Not a Jural Entity That Can Be Sued Under NY Child Victims Act

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In Chestnut v. United Methodist Church ,  (NY App. Div., July 10, 2024), a New York state appellate court held that the "United Methodi...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Religious Discrimination Claims Against Child Protective Services Meet Procedural Hurdles

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In Gautreaux v. Masters ,  (WD TX, Aug. 29, 2022), a Texas federal magistrate judge recommended that the court dismiss some or all of the fr...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Scientology Sued By Plaintiffs Alleging Years Of Abuse As Children

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Suit was filed in a Florida federal district court last week under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act against the Church...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

Court Issues TRO Preventing Enforcement Of Texas Governor's Order On Gender Transition Treatment For Minors

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As reported in an ACLU press release , earlier this week a Texas state trial court in Jane Doe v. Abbott ,  (TX Dist. Ct., March 2, 2022), i...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Texas AG and Governor Say Gender Transition Of Minors Can Constitute Child Abuse

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On Feb. 18, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Attorney General Opinion No. KP-401  concluded that a number of procedures used to treat ge...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Lev Tahor Sect Leaders Convicted Of Kidnapping and Sexual Exploitation of Minors

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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Wednesday that a federal court jury has convicted two lea...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Supreme Court Rejects Suit Against 2 US Companies Charging Abetting Child Slavery Abroad

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Under the Alien Tort Statute , suits may be brought in U.S. courts by non-citizens to recover damages for human rights abuses that violate i...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

6th Circuit Rejects Free Exercise Challenge To Corporal Punishment Limitations

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In Clark v. Stone ,  (6th Cir., May 19, 2021), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge by fundamentalist Christian parent...
Monday, March 18, 2019

10th Circuit: Suit Against FLDS Leader Warren Jeff's Lawyers Can Move Ahead

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In Bistline v. Parker ,  (10th Cir., March 14, 2019), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision reversing a district court...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

$4M Award Against Jehovah's Witnesses Upheld

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In J.W. v, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. , (CA App,, Dec. 10, 2018), a California state appellate court upheld an awa...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Parents Charged In Death of Son From Forced Religious Fast

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In Wisconsin, the parents of two boys were charged with neglect causing the death of one son and great bodily harm to the other resulting fr...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Texas' Highest Criminal Court Upholds Law Punishing Sexual Assault By Polygamists More Harshly

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In Estes v. State of Texas ,  (TX Ct. Crim. App., May 9, 2018), the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, reversing the Court of Appeals, upheld ...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Canada's House of Commons Calls on Pope and Church To Respond To Residential Schools Settlement

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On Tuesday, Canada's House of Commons by a vote of 269-10 called on the Catholic Church and Pope Francis to respond to recommendations i...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Cult Leader Sentenced To 99 Years In Starvation Death of Young Boy

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Dallas Morning News  reports that a Texas jury last Friday sentenced 52-year old Aracely Meza-- the religious leader of a church known as Ig...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

European Court Upholds Germany's Removal of Children From Religious Sect Parents

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Last week in the cases of  Tlapak and Others v. Germany and   Wetjen and Others v. Germany , (ECHR, March 22, 2018), the European Court of ...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Court Upholds Large Penalty Against Jehovah's Witnesses For Failure To Produce Documents

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In Padron v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. ,  (CA App., Nov. 9, 2017), a California appellate court upheld a $4000 pe...

Former Church Members Question Settlement of Suit Against Child Protection Officials

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Former members of the North Carolina-based World of Faith Fellowship (WOFF) will ask the North Carolina attorney general to seek review a se...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

FLDS Leader and His Law Firm Sued Over Exploitation of Minors

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Courthouse News Service reports on a lawsuit filed last week in Utah federal district court by 21 former members of the polygamous FLDS Chu...

Settlement Leads To Dropping of Criminal Charges Against St. Paul Archdiocese

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In St. Paul, Minnesota yesterday, a state trial court held a hearing on the progress so far in implementing a settlement agreement that wa...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

New York Legislature Punts On Extending Statute of Limitations For Child Sex Abuse Claims

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As reported by the New York Daily News , the New York legislature adjourned for the year early last Saturday morning without taking action o...