2005
- June 22, 2005 The Nashville Church forces members to donate, suit says - By Mitchell Kline, The Tennessean
Two former members of The Nashville Church have filed a lawsuit claiming the church uses cultlike tactics, manipulation, peer pressure and guilt to force members into tithing and making other financial contributions...
...The Pelhams are seeking to recover more than $93,000 in tithes and offerings they made to the church, the International Churches of Christ (the denomination's headquarters in Los Angeles) and two affiliated charitable organizations...
...The Pelhams allege that The Nashville Church, the ICC, Hope Worldwide, and Central and South America World Sector jointly participated in a scheme to defraud church members, who are not allowed to inspect the church's financial records...
2001
- Note: The following link will take you to an archived version of the article below.
- March 26, 2001 Recent Georgia Decision Upholds Undercover Reporting, BLT Atlanta via the Wayback Machine
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia recently issued a ruling in favor of Fox News Network ("Fox") and one of their reporters in a case attacking a Fox undercover report concerning a religious group at Georgia State University ("GSU"). In the case, Esmeralda Lucas, the Woman's Campus Ministry Leader for the Atlanta International Church of Christ (the "Church"), and her husband Jonathan Lucas brought suit against Fox and a Fox reporter working undercover at GSU...
2000
- September 2000 (PDF) U.S. District Court Rejects Privacy Claims Premised on Hidden Camera Footage, by By Robert L. Rothman and Roger Chalmers, LDRC LibelLetter
A federal district court in Atlanta has dismissed invasion of privacy claims premised on a January 1999 broadcast of a Fox Files report entitled "Cults on Campus." Lucas v. Fox News Network, et al., (N.D. Ga., June 27, 2000).
The report profiled college and university campus
activities of the International Church of Christ.
- July 31, 2000 U.S. Court Rejects Church Employee Suit in TV 'Cult' Story, Fulton County Daily Report via law.com
A federal judge dismissed a suit by an Atlanta International Church of Christ campus ministry leader and her husband against Fox News Network and reporter...
...On June 27, in Lucas v. Fox News Network, No. 1:99-cv-2638 (N.D. Ga. June 27, 2000), U.S. District Court Senior Judge Charles A. Moye Jr. dismissed the Lucases' suit, explaining that Lucas' proselytizing was a public activity. "The surreptitious recording and broadcast of the Bible study session," Moye said, "cannot amount to an invasion of any of plaintiffs' privacy interests."...
- July 31, 2000 Court Rejects Campus 'Cult' Suit Against Fox, R. Robin McDonald, Fulton County Daily Report via law.com
1999
- April 19, 1999 SUNY Must Allow Church Back on Campus, Bill Alden, New York Law Journal via law.com
The State University of New York at Purchase violated the constitutional rights of the Church of Christ by revoking the church's license to use a college facility after a student was suspended for intimidating another into joining the church, a White Plains federal judge has ruled...
...Banning the entire congregation from using the center went "far beyond" what was needed to protect SUNY Purchase students from the harassment arising from "persistent solicitation," declared the judge in her 55-page ruling in Lark v. Lacy, 99 Civ. 0228, issued late Thursday.
Despite siding with the church on its claims, Judge McMahon did not lift the student's suspension, noting that she had received a fair hearing and that the school had punished conduct, not speech...
...Andrea Lark, a member of the church, enrolled at SUNY in...
...In April 1998, another SUNY student, Dionnie Walker, complained to school authorities that Ms. Lark had pressured her into attending a church-affiliated trip to Massachusetts and then had tried to prevent her from leaving someone else's room to visit her family...
1997
1997 Kendall v. Kendall, Utah State Court (...in Kendall v. Kendall, 687 N.E.2d 1228 (Mass. 1997)...the court
affirmed a custody order that restricted the father's ability to expose his children, who were Orthodox Jews, to his newly adopted religion which taught "that those who do not accept the Boston Church of Christ faith are 'damned to
go to hell' where there will be 'weeping and gnashing of teeth,'"...) (Scroll down to number 31.)
More Information
- Singapore Lawsuit via RightCyberUp
The ICC organization has become increasingly litigious, turning to lawsuits to accomplish its aims. In a series of lawsuits filed in Singapore, the ICC's Singapore Central Christian Church (CCC) sued the editors of three newspapers...
Updated 08/24/05 - Posted 03/17/02
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