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by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2022 | Arizona, Associated Press, Church in the US, Court cases, News, sex abuse | 0 |
Arizona victims of long-ago child sex abuse can proceed with lawsuits against groups like the Boy Scouts of America after the state Supreme Court rejected claims that a state law extending victims’ right to sue was unconstitutional.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Bishop accountability, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clergy sex abuse crisis, Court cases, German bishops, Germany, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
In the first testimony ever given by a German Catholic bishop in a court case on abuse, Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hesse admitted having made mistakes in the case of an offending priest on trial in the Cologne regional court.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 16, 2022 | Bishop Franco Mulakkal, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in India, Court cases, India, Indian Bishops, News, Rape | 0 |
A court has acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal of all charges of raping a nun, saying the prosecution could not prove the allegations against him.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Court cases, News, Nuns, Russia | 0 |
A federal magistrate judge in Virginia refused Thursday to free a former Army Green Beret who was arrested last week on a charge that he divulged U.S. military secrets to Russian intelligence agents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Conscientious objection, Court cases, News, religious liberty, Vaccines | 0 |
A former Pfizer employee who said she was fired for refusing a vaccine on religious grounds can’t proceed with a discrimination lawsuit because she waived that right, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a decision two justices called potentially troubling for employee rights.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Arizona, Associated Press, Church in the US, Court cases, News, Satanic Temple, Satanism | 0 |
The Satanic Temple has appealed a judge’s decision ruling the city of Scottsdale did not discriminate against the temple when city officials blocked the group from giving an invocation before a council meeting in 2016.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 21, 2020 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Court cases, Cross, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Florida, News | 0 |
Reversing its previous decision, a federal appeals court ruled Feb. 19 that a World War II-era cross can remain standing in a park in Pensacola, Florida, based on the Supreme Court’s decision last year about a similar cross on public property in Maryland.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Universities, Church in the US, Court cases, labor movement, News, Unions | 0 |
A Jan. 28 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington reversed a 2017 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board ordering a Pittsburgh Catholic university to bargain with its adjunct faculty group.
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