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IN RE YOUNG

No. 93-2267.

141 F.3d 854 (1998)

In re: Bruce YOUNG; In re: Nancy Young, Julia A. CHRISTIANS, Appellee, v. CRYSTAL EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, Appellant. United States of America, Intervenor on Appeal, Christian Legal Society; The National Association of Evangelicals; Americans United for Separation of Church and State; Concerned Women for America; The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs; The Southern Baptist Convention; The General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists; The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Amici Curiae. United States Senator Orrin G. Hatch; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights; Traditional Values Coalition; Worldwide Church of God, Amicus Curiae. Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion, Amicus on Behalf of Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Thomas Thomson, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for Christians and Stephen W. Preston, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., argued, of Washington, DC, for intervenor United States (Frank W. Hunger, David Lee Lillenhaug, Michael Jay Singer, and Matthew M. Collette, on the brief).

Before McMILLIAN and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and BOGUE, District Judge.

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)....

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