Getting rid of sinners may be expensive: A suggested approach to torts related to religious shunning under the free exercise clause

Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Merkin, Nicholas ^a  

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1. This is a hypothetical meant to illuminate a typical situation of religious shunning. There is no such institution as the New Cosmos Church. All of the facts in the hypothetical are taken from the case of Bear v. Reformed Mennonite Church, 341 A.2d 105 (Pa. Sup. Ct. 1975) as reported in Eileen Keerdoja et al., Shunned Mennonite Resumes Battle, Newsweek, Apr. 13, 1981, at 22 and A Rebel's Small Victory, Newsweek, Dec. 17, 1979, at 78.
2. This is a hypothetical meant to illuminate a typical situation of religious shunning. There is no such institution as the New Cosmos Church. All of the facts in the hypothetical are taken from the case of Bear v. Reformed Mennonite Church, 341 A.2d 105 (Pa. Sup. Ct. 1975) as reported in Eileen Keerdoja et al., Shunned Mennonite Resumes Battle, Newsweek, Apr. 13, 1981, at 22 and A Rebel's Small Victory, Newsweek, Dec. 17, 1979, at 78.
3. This is a hypothetical meant to illuminate a typical situation of religious shunning. There is no such institution as the New Cosmos Church. All of the facts in the hypothetical are taken from the case of Bear v. Reformed Mennonite Church, 341 A.2d 105 (Pa. Sup. Ct. 1975) as reported in Eileen Keerdoja et al., Shunned Mennonite Resumes Battle, Newsweek, Apr. 13, 1981, at 22 and A Rebel's Small Victory, Newsweek, Dec. 17, 1979, at 78.
4. Religious shunning is a practice in which members of religious groups sever some or all relationships with an errant member or former member of the group at the command of the religious body. See infra Part III for a more elaborate discussion of the purposes and practice of religious shunning.