Does a church have standing under article III of the constitution to challenge state legislation requiring it to register as a non-profit?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Scott v. Rosenberg, 702 F.2d 1263 (9th Cir. 1983):
Valley Forge, supra, 454 U.S. at 471, 102 S.Ct. at 758 (footnote omitted); see Larson v. Valente, 456 U.S. 228, 238-43, 102 S.Ct. 1673, 1680-83, 72 L.Ed.2d 33 (1982) (church, as well as its individual followers, had standing under article III to challenge state law requiring religious organizations that received more than half their total contributions from nonmembers to register and report to the state).
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