Supreme Court Review Sought In Pastor’s Defamation Claim Against Church
Monday, October 26th, 2009On Friday, a petition for certiorari (full text) to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed in Cooke v. Tubra. In the case, an Oregon state appellate court held that jurisdiction over an interim pastor’s defamation claim against his former church and two of its officers is not necessarily barred by the First Amendment. (See prior posting.) [...]
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