SOUTH RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH v. INDUS. COM'N OF OHIO

No. 88-3091.

911 F.2d 1203 (1990)

SOUTH RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Loomis (argued), Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellant.

Merl H. Wayman (argued), Columbus, Ohio, for defendants-appellees.

Before WELLFORD and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.


ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question of whether a state violates the free exercise and establishment clauses of the first amendment, U.S. Const.Amend. I, in compelling a church to pay premiums into a public workers' compensation program on behalf of its employees, where the church believes that such payments are sinful. We ultimately hold that although interesting and delicate, this question has effectively been answered in the negative by...

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