Religion & Law

Polygamy Scholarship
Polygamy is a "hot topic" in family law scholarship (as well as in the popular media). A few great looking articles with their SSRN abstracts: "'They Ain't Whites; They're Mormons': An Illustrated History of Polygamy as Race Treason" MARTHA M...

The Law and Polygamy in Canada
The intense media coverage of the raid on the polygamist ranch in Texas has also generated scrutiny of Canada’s polygamous communities. Polygamy is against the law in Canada but there has not been a prosecution of a case in over sixty years...

England Approves Benefits for Polygamists
In a surprising development with significance to the on-going debate over polygamy in the United States, the British government has decided that polygamist citizens are entitled public welfare despite the fact the polygamy is illegal in Britain.

Debating Polygamy
What is wrong with polygamy? Nineteenth-century Americans coupled it with slavery, calling both "the twin relics of barbarism." Today, it is used as a scare image to deter people from approving same-sex marriage, lest it lead down a slippery slope...

Polygamists Indicted in British Columbia
The day after I posted What Exactly is Wrong with Polygamy, the Canadian press reported that two alleged leaders of the polygamous community of Bountiful in British Columbia had been charged with practicing polygamy in violation of the Criminal Code...

Debaters argue over Utah's approach to addressing polygamy
Is Utah selling out children or protecting the constitutional rights of its citizens? Those were the clashing views of two speakers debating the state's approach to dealing with polygamy Wednesday at the University of Utah's College of Law....

Money Mart Canada
Settles Class Action for $100 Million

Treasurer Embezzlement
Mary Lou Puccio repays Warren Cheer and Pom Program $26,000 after stealing money.

Bankrupt Money Manager
Former officers to pay $10.7 million settlement in fraud lawsuit.

Transit Technicians Scam
Two Municipal Transportation Agency agree to pay $287,000 settlement for stealing money from fare boxes.

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.

Honda Issues Massive Recalls in US and Canada
Honda Issues Massive Recalls in US and Canada