Legal Opinion
Gipson v. Brown
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided March 31, 1986No. 85-180PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.
The parties to this lawsuit are all members of the Sixth and Izard Church of Christ, Inc., a church incorporated under Arkansas law as a nonprofit corporation. Appellants are elders of the church and appellees are part of its general membership. Appellees instituted suit in Pulaski Chancery Court alleging that they have been denied financial data and other business information relating to the church and asserting that, as members of a nonprofit corporation, they are entitled to this knowledge as a matter of statutory right. Appellants filed a motion to dismiss…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- State of Arkansas, Cross-Appellant v. Dean Foods Products Company, Inc., Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
- Johnson v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1967
- Wilkerson v. BattisteLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1980
- Bourgeois v. LandrumSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
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3Cited by32 opinions
- First American Carriers, Inc. v. Kroger Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1990
- Ford Motor Co. v. HarperSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2003
- Arkansas Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church v. Hudson Ex Rel. JonesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2001
- Gipson v. BrownSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1988
- Calvary Christian School, Inc. v. HuffstuttlerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2006
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