In Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit, Nina J. Crimm and Laurence H. Winer examine the provocative mix of religion, politics, and taxes involved in the controversy over houses of worship engaging in electoral political speech. The authors analyze the dilemmas associated with federal tax subsidies benefiting nonprofit houses of worship conditioned on their refraining from political campaign speech. The Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision invalidating federal campaign finance restrictions on corporations' political campaign speech makes the remaining, analogous restrictive tax laws constraining many nonprofit entities all the more singular and problematic, particularly for houses of worship. Crimm and Winer explore the multifaceted constitutional tensions arising from this legal structure and implicating all fundamental values embodied in the First Amendment: free speech and free press, the free exercise of religion, and the avoidance of government establishment of religion. They also examine the history and economics of taxation of houses of worship. The authors conclude that there exists no means of fully resolving the irreconcilable clashes in a constitutionally permissible and politically and socially palatable manner. Nonetheless, Crimm and Winer offer several feasible legislative proposals for reforming tax provisions that likely will generate considerable debate. If Congress adopts the proposed reforms, however, the revised system should substantially ameliorate the disquieting constitutional tensions induced by the current tax laws and curb the growing emotionally charged atmosphere about the role of religion in the public sphere.

Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit: Provocative First Amendment Conflicts

History

Winer, Laurence H.

Crimm, Nina J.

World

Oxford University Press

Tax Court Litigation Practice and Procedure

Legal Education

Little,Brown & Co

Setting the standard for modern arbitration practice, Federal Arbitration Law is the first and only treatise to address the new power and pervasiveness of the Federal Arbitration Act and equip the practitioner with FAA-approved guidelines. In five clearly written volumes, three national experts on ADR share their understanding of the FAA as well as a wealth of advice on arbitration of all kinds. The detailed, practical guidance they offer shows you how to:  * Draft tough, FAA-legal arbitration clauses for commercial contracts * Determine which law or rules apply at every step * Choose the best arbitrators * Handle witnesses * Fashion remedies * Conduct employee and class-action arbitration With analysis of every Supreme Court case dealing with arbitration issues - as well as hundreds of federal, district, and state cases - this definitive resource blankets the field, from evidence at arbitration proceedings to judicial enforcement of arbitration awards. No existing work on the topic can compare with its scope of coverage.

Tax Court Litigation: Practice and Procedure

ASPEN PUB.

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment that allow state legislatures unabashedly to use public tax dollars increasingly to aid private elementary and secondary education. This expansive and innovative legislation provides considerable governmental funds to support parochial schools and other religiously-affiliated education providers. That political response to the perceived declining quality of traditional public schools and the vigorous school choice movement for alternative educational opportunities provokes passionate constitutional controversy. Yet, the Court’s recent decision in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn inappropriately denies taxpayers recourse to challenge these proliferating tax funding schemes in federal courts. Professors Winer and Crimm clearly elucidate the complex and controversial policy, legal, and constitutional issues involved in using tax expenditures - mechanisms such as exclusions, deductions, and credits that economically function as government subsidies - to finance private, religious schooling. The authors argue that legislatures must take great care in structuring such programs and set forth various proposals to ameliorate the highly troubling dissention and divisiveness generated by state aid for religious education.

God, Schools, and Government Funding: First Amendment Conundrums

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Routledge

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