Showing posts with label Infliction of Emotional Distress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infliction of Emotional Distress. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Suit Against Church for Negligent Retention of Pastor Can Move Ahead

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 In Exum v. St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church, Inc. ,  (NC App, Nov. 19, 2024), a North Carolina state appellate court held that clai...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Federal Court Refuses to Enjoin Distribution of Notice from Rabbinical Court

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In Esses v. Rosen ,  (ED NY, Oct. 15, 2024), a New York federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction barring defendants ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Suit Over Deceptively Promoted School Religious Program Moves Ahead

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In Roe v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board ,  (MD LA, Oct. 8, 2024), a Louisiana federal district court refused to dismiss many claims b...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Priest's Suit Against Archdiocese

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 In Syring v. Archdiocese of Omaha ,  (NE Sup. Ct., July 26, 2024), the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of defamation, inflictio...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Fraud and Negligence Claims Move Ahead Against Church Over Mistreatment of Members

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In Ramirez v. World Mission Society, Church of God ,  (D NJ, April 1, 2024), plaintiff brought suit in a New Jersey federal district court a...
Friday, July 07, 2023

Ministerial Exception Applies to Slander, But Not Contract Claims

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In Gackenheimer v. Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ, Inc. ,  (CT Super., June 29, 2023), a minister who was fi...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Former Cantor's Claims Against Synagogue Are Dismissed

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In Sklar v. Temple Israel, Westport Inc. ,  (CT Super., April 21, 2023), a Connecticut state trial court dismissed breach of contract and in...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Bars Mississippi Courts From Adjudicating Claims Of Fired Diocese Finance Officer

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In Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi v. DeLange ,  (MS Sup. Ct., June 16, 2022), the Mississippi Supreme Court held that the ecclesia...
Friday, June 10, 2022

School Lacks Standing To Sue For Students' and Parents' Distress From Anti-Abortion Pickets

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In Nicdao v. Two Rivers Public Charter School ,  (DC Ct. App., June 9, 2022), the District of Columbia's local Court of Appeals held tha...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Fraud and Emotional Distress Claims Against Archdiocese Are Dismissed

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In Dux v. Bugarin , (MI App., Dec. 21, 2021), a Michigan state appellate court dismissed an intentional infliction of emotional distress (II...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Mississippi Supreme Court Rejects Claims By Pastor's Former Wife Against His Church On Unusual Facts

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In Woodard v. Miller ,  (MS Sup. Ct., Aug. 12, 2021), the Mississippi Supreme Court applied the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine in an unu...
Friday, July 09, 2021

Content of Sermon Protected By Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine

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In  Hullibarger v. Archdiocese of Detroit ,  (MI App., July 8, 2021), a Michigan state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical abstenti...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Virginia Muslim Politician Sues Over Lynching Threat

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 A civil damage action for racial, religious and ethnic harassment in violation of Virginia Code § 8.01-42.1 was filed yesterday in federal...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

New Hampshire Priest Sues Conservative Catholic Website For Defamation

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A suit alleging defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress was filed last Friday in a New Hampshire federal district court ...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Parishioners Sue Claiming Wrongful Removal of Priest

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An unusual lawsuit was recently filed against the Archdiocese of Detroit by 20 parishioners of a Detroit Roman Catholic parish. The suit fil...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Muslim Woman Sues Theater Over Pepperoni Pizza

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Redondo Beach Patch reports on a lawsuit filed last week by an observant Muslim woman against a California movie theater chain over a pizza...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Proselytizing Does Not Rise To Level of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

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In  Trombetta v Kruse,  (NY Civ. Ct., Nov. 19, 2019), a New York state trial court held that a proselytizing pamphlet and a subsequent e-mai...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Court Rejects Free Exercise Defense To Infliction of Emotional Distress Claim

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In Lawrence v. Treybig , (TX App., June 20, 2019), a Texas state appeals court affirmed a trial court jury's award of nominal damages an...