Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Heitkamp v. Family Life Services, Inc.
North Dakota Supreme Court
Decided September 21, 2000No. 990212, 990220, 990229, 990215, 990222, 990216, 990228PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANDSTROM, Justice.
[¶ 1] Family Life Services, Inc., doing business as Family Life Credit Services (“FLS”), Help and Caring Ministries, Inc. (“HCM”), and individual directors of those nonprofit corporations appealed from a district court judgment removing Darold Larson as a director from the HCM board for a period of five years, removing all current directors from the FLS board, and reconstituting the FLS board. We hold the district court’s act of reconstituting the FLS board implicates the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment, and the court, under the circumstances,…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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3Cited by23 opinions
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