“7th Circuit: Ministerial Exception Does Not Cover Hostile Work Environment Claims, Absent Tangible Employment Action.” Religion Clause summarizes the decision here.
Category: Illinois
“Preparing for In-Person Religious Services: Legal Updates and Best Practices”
“Preparing for In-Person Religious Services: Legal Updates and Best Practices” Wagenmaker Law has an overview of several issues related to returning to in-person worship here.
“Preparing for In-Person Religious Services: Legal Updates and Best Practices”
“Preparing for In-Person Religious Services: Legal Updates and Best Practices” Wagenmaker Law has an overview of several issues related to returning to in-person worship here.
“Court declines to lift restrictions on crowds at church services”
“Court declines to lift restrictions on crowds at church services” SCOTUSblog summarizes the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent orders in two cases here.
“Church Members in Church Bankruptcies”
“Church Members in Church Bankruptcies” Church Litigation Update summarizes In re: Sindesmos Hellinikes-Kinotitos of Chicago, Debtor, Memorandum Decision (N.D. Ill., ED, Bankr., 2019), here.
“Chicago suburb seeks to block church’s winter homeless shelter”
“Chicago suburb seeks to block church’s winter homeless shelter.” Religion News Service covers the lawsuit here.
Ill. App. Ct.: Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine bars challenge to denial of rental of Catholic Community Center
Ill. App. Ct.: Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine bars challenge to denial of rental of Catholic Community Center. Religion Clause covers Sacred Heart Knanaya Catholic Community Center Building Board v. St. Thomas Syromalabar Diocese of Chicago, No. 2-18-0792 (Ill. App. Ct., May 30, 2019), here.
“Facial challenge to Chicago parking standard fails”
“Facial challenge to Chicago parking standard fails” RLUIPA Defense reports here on Immanuel Baptist Church v. City of Chicago, No. 17 C 00932 (N.D. Ill., 2017).
“7th Circuit: Illinois May Apply Education Laws to Bible Colleges.”
“7th Circuit: Illinois May Apply Education Laws to Bible Colleges.” Religion Clause reports here on Illinois Bible Colleges Association v. Anderson, (7th Cir., Aug. 29, 2017).