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Authority Of The Attorney General To Investigate Religious Corporations, Assembly Committee On Judiciary, Senate Committee On Judiciary

California Joint Committees

Hearings of Nov. 17, 1980 and Nov. 25, 1980.

The subject of today's joint hearing of the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees is the authority of the Attorney General to investigate and bring actions against religious corporations. Earlier this year, the Legislature enacted SB 1493 which will become operative on June 1, 1981 and which will narrow the AG's powers in this area. The purpose of this hearing is to determine whether, under the new law, the AG will retain adequate powers relative to religious corporations or if further legislation is needed.

People V. Onofre: Can The State Peek Into Your Bedroom?, Matthew Thomas Robinson

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.

The Spanish Experience In Church-State Relations: A Comparative Study Of The Interrelationship Between Church-State Identification And Religious Liberty, George R. Ryskamp

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Stone V. Graham: A Fragile Defense Of Individual Religious Autonomy, J. David Smith Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Entanglement Test Of The Religion Clauses -- A Ten Year Assessment, Kenneth F. Ripple

Journal Articles

During its 1979 Term, the Supreme Court of the United States passed the ten-year mark in its employment of the so-called "excessive entanglement" test of the religion clauses. During the past decade this concept has developed from a simple expression of one of the accepted policy considerations underlying interpretation of the religion clauses to an identifiably separate test in establishment clause analysis. In this latter role, the Court has employed the concept to accomplish two distinct, although analytically related, objectives. First, it has sought to identify those legal and administrative relationships between civil and religious authorities which are likely to …

Free Exercise And The Attorney/Priest: The Clerical Collar In The Courtroom, Jeffrey Glassman

Fordham Urban Law Journal

One of the more difficult free exercise of religion problems to come to the courts is the conflict that arises when an attorney who is also a ordained Roman Catholic priest claims the right to appear before a criminal jury while wearing his clerical collar. The New York Court of Appeals forbade a priest from wearing his collar, while the New York Supreme Court granted an application by an attorney/priest to wear his collar. This decision was subsequently overruled by the appellate division. This Article examines arguments in favor of allowing a priest to wear his collar. It examines the …

Holistic Medicine And Freedom Of Religion, F. Stephen Knippenberg

F. Stephen Knippenberg

No abstract provided.