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Becket Fund's Kevin J. Hasson Quoted in NY TImes
Becket Fund founder and chairman Kevin J. (Seamus) Hasson was quoted in the New York Times today. The article, by Stephanie Strom, covered the IRS investigation into a California church and that church's refusal to turn over the documents requested by the IRS. The church's action forces the IRS to either drop the case or ask the Justice Department to take the church to court.
“This looks like the short-cut way for the church to get the issue as to whether this is a valid investigation or not right into the court and allow it to rule on the constitutional issues,” said Kevin J. Hasson, founder and chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “It’s a perfectly respectably legal maneuver, not something like a militia movement refusing to put license plates on their cars.”
The Becket Fund has developed a national reputation as the leading force litigating cases under RLUIPA and the First Amendment. Read the entire article here.