Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
3-4-2016
Abstract
This brief addresses the importance of the principle of church autonomy and the protections provided by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents regarding religious denominations' internal mandatory dispute-resolution procedures.
Recommended Citation
Brief of The Catholic University of America School of Canon Law, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, The Queens Federation of Churches, and The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Chabad-Lubavitch of Michigan v. Schuchman, No.15-1005 (U.S.. March 4, 2016)
Included in
First Amendment Commons, Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Supreme Court of the United States Commons
Comments
On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan
Table of Authorities include:
Richard W. Garnett, The Political (and Other) Safeguards of Religious Freedom, 32 CARDOZO L. REV. 1815 (2011).
Richard W. Garnett, Religion and Group Rights: Are Churches (Just) Like the Boy Scouts?, 22 ST. JOHN'S J. LEG. COMM. 515 (2007).
Richard W. Garnett, Religious Liberty, Church Autonomy, and the Structure of Freedom, in JOHN WITTE, JR. & FRANK S. ALEXANDER, CHRIS-TIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTRODUCTION (2010).
Richard W. Garnett, "The Freedom of the Church": (Toward) An Exposition, Translation, and Defense, in MICAH SCHWARTZMAN, CHAD FLANDERS & ZOE ROBINSON, EDS., THE RISE OF CORPORATE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY (2016).