Legal Opinion
Christians v. Crystal Evangelical Free Church (In Re Young)
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 13, 1998No. 93-2267PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
In our earlier opinion in this matter we reversed the district court and held that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb to 2000bb-4, bankruptcy debtors’ religious tithes could not be recovered from a church as avoidable transactions in adversary proceedings. See Christians v. Crystal Evangelical Free Church (In re Young), 82 F.3d 1407, 1420 (8th Cir.1996). In City of Boerne v. Flores, _ U.S. _, 117 S.Ct. 2157, 138 L.Ed.2d 624 (1997), the Supreme Court held that RFRA was unconstitutional as applied to state law because Congress had…
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