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United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944), was a United States Supreme Court case from the October 1943 term.. The case arose from the appeal of the conviction of two leaders of the new religious "I AM" Activity movement for fraudulently seeking and collecting donations on the basis of religious claims that the defendants themselves did not believe.
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 544 of the United States ... United States: 544 U.S. 13: 2005: Ballard v. Comm'r: 544 U.S. 40: ...
Ballard was convicted twice, and the second time after a ruling was overturned. The case went to the US Supreme Court and was ruled as United States v. Ballard. [1] [5] Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944) "Whether a religious belief is true or false is irrelevant to a judicial determination, as long as the belief is sincerely held." In other words ...
Schlesinger v. Ballard, 419 U.S. 498 (1975), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld a federal statute granting female Naval officers four more years of commissioned service before mandatory discharge than male Naval officers.
According to the Los Angeles Magazine, Ballard said he was the re-embodiment of George Washington, an Egyptian priest, and a noted French musician. [13] Ballard died in 1939. In 1942, his wife and son were convicted of fraud, [8] [13] a conviction which was overturned in a landmark Supreme Court decision (United States v.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Tuesday filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief in his bid for criminal immunity for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, arguing that a former president ...
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, ed. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit L. Hall, ed. Alley, Robert S. (1999). The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-703-1
The Supreme Court sided with a music producer in a copyright case Thursday, allowing him to seek more than a decade's worth of damages over a sample used in a hit Flo Rida song. The 6-3 decision ...