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BANDSTRA v. COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH

No. 16-1078.

913 N.W.2d 19 (2018)

Valerie BANDSTRA, Anne Bandstra, Ryan Bandstra, and Jason Bandstra, Appellants, v. COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 1, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roxanne Barton Conlin of Roxanne Conlin & Associates, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Michael W. Thrall of Nyemaster Goode, P.C., Des Moines, and Frances M. Haas of Nyemaster Goode, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Eugene Volokh of Scott & Cyan Banister First Amendment Clinic at UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, and Jason D. Walke of Walke Law, LLC, Waukee, for amicus curiae International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc.

In this appeal, we address a number of claims within a lawsuit by two female parishioners and their spouses against a church based on claims of negligence and defamation involving sexual abuse and exploitation perpetrated on the women by the church pastor and the subsequent response by the governing body of the church. The district...

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