June 12, 2018
An Ohio megachurch cafe that in April convinced the Sixth Circuit to wipe out the U.S. Department of Labor's win on allegations that it "spiritually coerced" congregants into volunteering must make its case for the agency to pay its attorneys' fees to the district court judge who ruled against it, the appeals court said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2018
An Ohio church restaurant that earlier this month convinced an appellate panel to wipe out the U.S. Department of Labor's win in a wage suit alleging it "spiritually coerced" congregants into working for free wants to make the government pay its legal fees, according to a document filed with the Sixth Circuit Thursday.
April 16, 2018
An Ohio televangelist's suggestion that congregants were "closing the door on God" when they didn't volunteer at a church-run buffet did not violate federal wage law, the Sixth Circuit said Monday in a published opinion, overturning an order that the Cathedral Buffet pay nearly $400,000 in a U.S. Department of Labor suit.
August 24, 2017
The U.S. Department of Labor has scorned a televangelist and his now-closed buffet restaurant's bid in the Sixth Circuit to reverse their loss in a suit over child labor and unpaid workers, saying the Supreme Court agrees that the use of unpaid workforces at for-profit businesses violates the Fair Labor Standards Act.
July 03, 2017
A televangelist and his buffet restaurant have asked the Sixth Circuit to reverse the U.S. Department of Labor's victory in a suit alleging that the restaurant used child labor and unpaid workers wrongly classified as volunteers, saying the volunteers did not expect pay for showing up, nor did they anticipate religious condemnation for staying home.