Category: General Counsel
Iowa Aska v. IRS: Three Ways to Lose a RFRA Case, and One Argument Visionary Churches Should Always Make
On March 31, 2023, Judge Beryl Howell in the District of Columbia dismissed a RFRA lawsuit filed by the Iowa Aska Church seeking to compel the IRS to issue a letter confirming the church’s...
Litigation Report
It’s June 14, 2023. It is a beautiful, clear afternoon here in Silver City, New Mexico, and bright sunrays, sifted through the gently tossing branches of alligator junipers, are sliding through the windows. It’s...
ON PREY AND PREDATORS
For I send you out as sheep among wolves, therefore be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Matthew 10:16 Predators in the Natural World Since I was a child, I have...
AYA Defeats DEA Motion to Dismiss – Federal Judge Green-Lights Case for Trial
Today U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn O. Silver ruled that Arizona Yagé Assembly’s lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and Customs and Border Protection may proceed, rejecting the Department of...
Why We Didn’t Settle With the DEA and Continue to Litigate
It seems preordained now, but our efforts to negotiate a settlement with the DEA this past summer did not result in any kind of agreement, except an agreement to return to federal court. As...
From the Desk of General Counsel
The Situation of Twenty-First Century Humans Every day we wake up and live our lives. We carry on with our affairs, making the best of the situation in which we find ourselves. We adapt...
