LITTLE v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

No. 85-1435.

475 U.S. 1148 (1986)

LITTLE v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, CRESTWOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.

April 28, 1986.


Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting.

In this case a state court conducted an election to determine whether petitioner, who was previously elected pastor of the First Baptist Church, Crestwood (Church), is still entitled to serve as pastor. I believe that such an action threatens to erode the First Amendment's prohibitions against entanglement between religious and secular authority, and I would therefore grant the...

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