Nelson Madden Black LLP

11/08/2023

https://federalbarcle.org/product/church-law-101-religious-institutions-in-a-secular-environment-2024-edition/?attribute_pa_tuition=on-demand-video

Jonathan Nelson practices primarily in the fields of civil litigation and corporate law, with a concentration on the representation of religious institutions.

08/16/2023

A recet development affirms the importance of preserving rights of religious orientation in private sectarian universities.

WACO, Texas (BP) – The U.S. Department of Education confirmed Baylor University’s religious exemption from a narrow range of Title IX provisions, particularly regarding LGBTQ students.

08/05/2023

A photo essay on New York City’s women pastors features our client, Rev. Vicky Moss.

Photographer Corrie Aune's project, "For Such a Time as This," explores what it's like to be a female pastor in New York.

07/21/2023

Nelson Madden Black provides legal services for churches, synagogues, other religious institutions, and First Amendment religious discrimination clients.

07/10/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/nyregion/judge-recuse-covid-vaccine-stock.html?smid=url-share

The city’s teachers, who sued over vaccine requirements, said the judges assigned to the case owned thousands of dollars of Covid-19 vaccine-maker stock, which could affect their rulings.

05/18/2022

The defendant in this fraud case claimed that the defrauded investors, including pastors, were “sophisticated investors” eligible to put their money into complex, opaque and expensive investment schemes. Religious groups have an obligation to be prudent with their funds, which may mean limiting their investments in high-risk, complicated instruments.

A US division of German insurance firm Allianz will pay more than $6 billion for what US investigators called a "massive fraudulent scheme" that involved the investments of public pensions, religious organizations and other foundations.

02/18/2022

Justice Gorsuch has referred our request in the case of Keil v. New York City to the whole court for conference on March 4th.

The Supreme Court said Wednesday that it will consider a renewed request from New York City teachers and staff to block a vaccine mandate due their religious objections, despite an earlier denial by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

12/06/2021

According to this article, NYC Mayor De Blasio claims that the city's vaccine mandates have always been upheld in court. Has he forgotten? Last week, in response to a lawsuit we filed, the US Court of Appeals found the standards the city schools were using to evaluate religious exemptions from the mandate to be likely unconstitutional, and required claims to be evaluated under a new standard.

Mayor Bill de Blasio described the measure as a “pre-emptive strike” designed to stall another wave of coronavirus cases and help reduce transmission of the Omicron variant.

08/30/2021

In the August 27, 2021 edition of the New York Law Journal Religion Law column, partners Barry Black and Jonathan Robert Nelson look back at recent key rulings from the Supreme Court and look ahead to the SCOTUS’s new term and upcoming religion law cases on the docket. Read the full analysis here: https://bit.ly/2WAT03s