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Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. FCC
1998 court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. FCC was a 1998 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals case involving the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) enforcement of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act and the Fifth Amendment.[1] The FCC claimed that the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) had violated the FCC's Equal Employment Opportunity requirements by not hiring enough minorities/women and by requiring a knowledge of Lutheran doctrine in order to be hired to work at its two FM and AM radio stations located in Clayton, Missouri.[2]
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
Full case name | Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America |
Decided | April 14, 1998 |
Citation | 141 F.3d 344, 354, 356 |
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Judges sitting | Stephen F. Williams, Laurence H. Silberman, David B. Sentelle |
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LCMS FCC EEO Act 5th Amendment |
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