Religion Clause

In Sanzone v. Mercy Health ,  (8th Cir., March 27, 2020), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the retirement plan of a Catholic-...

In  Sheedy v. Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corp. , 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2131 (MD FL, Jan. 7,2020), a Florida federal distric...

In Boden v. St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Inc. ,  (ED KY, July 25, 2019), a Kentucky federal district court held that the employee retiremen...

In Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus v. Cassem ,  (D CT, March 18, 2019), a Connecticut federal district court dismissed breach of ...

In Smith v. OSF Healthcare System , (SD IL, Sept. 28, 2018), an Illinois federal district court held that the retirement plan for employees ...

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of three large health care systems whose employees had challenged whether their retirement ...

Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court held that retirement plans of religiously affiliated health care systems qualify as "church plans&quo...

In Medina v. Catholic Health Initiatives ,  (10th Cir., Dec. 19, 2017), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Catholic Health Ini...

Giving a major win to religiously affiliated health care systems, the U.S. Supreme Court today in Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton ...

In  Martinez-Gonzalez v. Catholic Schools of the Archdioceses of San Juan Pension Plan , 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11903 (D PR, Jan. 27, 2017),...

Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in three cases all posing the question of how to interpret the "church plan" exemption...

Another religiously affiliated health care system has been sued by participants in its retirement plan who claim that the plan is not exempt...

On Aug. 12 and 15 several amicus briefs were filed by religious advocacy groups with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting petitions for certio...

Bloomberg Law reports that Trinity Health Corp. has agreed to settle two class action lawsuits that claim the health care company's pen...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday joined the 3rd and 7th Circuits in interpreting ERISA to cover plans of a number of religi...

This week, another lawsuit was filed challenging the right of a religiously-affiliated hospital to rely on the "church plan" exem...

In  Stapleton v. Advocate Health Care Network , (7th Cir., March 17, 2016), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals joined the 3rd Circuit (se...

In Nashville (TN), an important charitable foundation, the Baptist Healing Trust Fund, last week filed a declaratory judgment action against...

In a decision that could have major financial implications for religiously affiliated hospitals and healthcare systems, the U.S. 3rd Circuit...

A series of cases filed around the country have challenged the treatment of Catholic hospital system pension plans as "church plans&quo...