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In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. [36] [37] Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties." [38]
Martin v. Struthers, 319 U.S. 141 (1943), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a law prohibiting the distribution of handbills from door to door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness, specifically their freedom of speech. The ruling was 5-4 and deemed trespassing laws a better fit for the town ...
In 1984, authors Merlin Brinkerhoff and Marlene Mackie concluded that after the so-called new cults, Jehovah's Witnesses were among the least accepted religious groups in the United States. [14] Legal challenges by Jehovah's Witnesses prompted a series of state and federal court rulings that reinforced judicial protections for civil liberties.
Oliver died from a "long-standing, terminal medical condition for which treatment was ongoing," according to a spokesman for the Shawnee County Adult Detention Center and Annex. Jail or Agency: Shawnee County Adult Detention Center and Annex; State: Kansas; Date arrested or booked: 7/10/2015; Date of death: 5/10/2016; Age at death: 44; Sources ...
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A year-long investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and USA TODAY Network Ohio examined 219 deaths in jail custody that were reported to the state Department of Rehabilitation ...
Referenced in the January 1, 1977 Watchtower, page 11 and the 1979 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 94. Publisher: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7705-1340-9 (Canada, 1976) Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses by M. James Penton. Penton, who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Lethbridge, examines the history ...
Between 2020 and 2023, at least 219 people died in custody of Ohio's 89 full-service jails, including four in Richland County. ‘We want justice’: Families protest deaths of loved ones who died ...