George Melcher, 75, of Randall, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025, at Aurora Medical Center in Burlington. Early Life He was ...

In 2021, the religious groups appealed the state’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices asked New York to reconsider ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be ...

Justices say a nonprofit can qualify for a religious employer exemption even if it employs people from outside its own faith.

Back in 2024, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Catholic Charities is not exempt from paying unemployment taxes because the charity's operations are not primarily religious. Churches in Wisconsin do ...

Wisconsin argued the Catholic Charities Bureau has paid the ... The conservative-majority court has issued a string of decisions siding with churches and religious plaintiffs in recent years. This ...

Wisconsin law states religious employers in the Badger State ... "Catholic Charities carries out ministries of the Catholic Church, the body of Christ, in the world today," Bishop Rhoades said.

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 unanimously ruled in favor of the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, which had asked the high court to overturn a decision by the ...

Wisconsin’s top court in 2024 found that ... In 2017, it sided with a Missouri church in ruling that churches and other religious entities cannot be flatly denied public money based on their ...

In a unanimous decision, the justices reversed the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s determination that a chapter of Catholic Charities, a social services arm of Catholic diocese nationwide, does not ...

The Supreme Court decided Thursday that a Catholic charity doesn’t have to pay Wisconsin unemployment taxes, one of a set of religious-rights cases the justices are considering this term.