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Green Acre Bahá'í Institute vs. Town of Eliot, Maine| |
Title of item | Green Acre Bahá'í Institute vs. Town of Eliot, Maine |
Editor, translator, etc. | Ralph D. Wagner, comp |
| Date of this edition | 1954/1963 |
| Language | English |
| Permission | public domain |
| Posted | 1998 by Jonah Winters |
| Classified in | Legal/gov't. Documents |
| URL | bahai-library.com/green_acre_vs_eliot |
| Abstract | Two court decisions regarding the tax exempt status of the Green Acre Bahá'í School, 1954 and 1963, and notes from a 1997 follow-up. |
| Notes | In the first document, Green Acre Bahá'í Institute v. Town of Eliot, 1954, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled that the Institute was entitled to tax exemption as a charitable institution. In the second, Green Acre Bahá'í Institute v. Town of Eliot, 1963, the same court removed the tax exemption, based on a 1957 law limiting exemptions to institutions that primarily serve residents of Maine. Later, in 1997, the US Supreme
Court declared this law unconstitutional in a case brought by a Christian Science institution.
Text taken from "Westlaw," a commercial database published by the West Publishing Company. In order to comply with copyright law, any annotations have been deleted, leaving the original public-domain text. [-R.D.W.] |
| Tags | Court cases; Green Acre; Tax exemption |
| Locations | Eliot; Maine; United States (documents) | | Page views | 16931 hits since 1998 |
| Edit quality | high: carefully proofread and edited |
| Format quality | high: well formatted |
Last edited | 1998. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs. | | |
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