Campus police act delegating authority to private religious college is constitutional *

USA - December 8 2011
In State v. Yencer, Case No. 365PA10, 2011 WL 5508999 (N.C. Nov. 10, 2011), the defendant, who was charged with driving while impaired, argued that her arrest by an officer of a private liberal arts college’s campus police was an invalid delegation of police power to a religious college, in violation of the Establishment Clause.

Co-authors: Nathan Adams.

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Timely topics *

USA - December 8 2011
A “fraudulent conveyance” connotes to the layperson an intentional effort to defraud someone, but in bankruptcy law this is just one type of fraudulent conveyance.

Co-authors: Nathan Adams.

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Although a teacher was not a minister, she failed to state age and religious discrimination claims against parochial school *

USA - December 8 2011
In Braun v. St. Pius X Parish, Case No. 09-CV-779-GKF-TLW, 2011 WL 5086362 (N.D. Okla. Oct. 25, 2011), Principal Matthew Verecke recommended to Father Michael Knipe that a 63-year-old fifth grade teacher named Martha Lou Braun not be renewed.

Co-authors: Nathan Adams.

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Courts rule disassociating congregations not entitled to their property *

USA - December 8 2011
In Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut v. Gauss, 302 Conn. 408 (Conn. 2011); Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church in Savannah v. Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ga., Inc., Case No. S10G1909, 2011 WL 5830140 (Ga. Nov. 21, 2011), and Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, Inc. v. Timberridge Presbyterian Church, Inc., No. S11G0587, 2011 WL 5830490 (Ga. Nov. 21, 2011), the courts ruled that under the neutral principles of law approach, disassociating congregations were not entitled to retain title to their real property, because the property was held in trust for the diocese.

Co-authors: Nathan Adams.

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Church business manager not entitled to worker’s compensation *

USA - December 8 2011
In Parish v. Highland Park Baptist Church, Case No. E2010-01977-WC-R3-WC, 2011 WL 4928739 (Tenn. Workers Compl. Panel Oct. 18, 2011), the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel, ruled that a church business manager and personnel director who was injured when thrown from a horse on the premises of the church-operated summer camp for inner-city children was not within the course and scope of his employment at the time and, thus, was not entitled to worker’s compensation.

Co-authors: Nathan Adams.

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