Official action narrative explicitly identifies the type

The official record identifies the institution as a church.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

The district court granted summary judgment to the IRS. On May 12, 2000, the D.C. Circuit affirmed and held that the statutory, constitutional, and selective-enforcement objections lacked merit.

Current operating or exemption status, prevalence among churches, or conduct beyond the revocation upheld in this action.

Official appellate opinion · D.C. Cir. 99-5097


U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Procedural or eligibility · no misconduct finding

The Tenth Circuit affirmed denial of the petition to quash, holding that the cited church-inquiry provisions did not apply to the third-party summons. The opinion did not adjudicate wrongdoing by the institution.

Tax liability, institutional wrongdoing, or current compliance or noncompliance.

Official published opinion · 10th Cir. 23-3063


The D.C. Circuit affirmed the judgment on the tax-exemption claim and dismissed the separate religious-exercise claim without prejudice for lack of standing. The disposition was not a finding of institutional misconduct.

Institutional wrongdoing, current tax status, or the merits of the separately dismissed claim.

Official appellate opinion · D.C. Cir. 23-5122

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit


The Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans

U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Emergency Management Agency

U.S. District Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

The settlement was approved by the bankruptcy court and announced by DOJ. The official release states that the resolved claims were allegations only and that there was no determination of liability.

Liability, an adjudicated violation, or the truth of the disputed allegations resolved by the agreement.

Official DOJ release · allegations and liability boundary


The Commission adopted mixed prosecutorial-discretion dismissals and no-reason-to-believe dispositions by a 4-2 vote and closed the file. Three earlier motions failed without establishing a disposition: one 2-3 and two 3-3.

A violation, liability, or an adjudicated merits finding. The three failed motions were non-dispositive.

Official amended certification · FEC MUR 7752


U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

DOJ reported that Mount Zion Baptist Church agreed to pay $70,464.39 to settle civil claims. The release presents the government’s assertions as allegations or contentions and says the settlement concluded the litigation.

The official release does not report a merits judgment or an admission.

Official DOJ release · exact title-filtered response


First Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Anna, Illinois

The Commission voted 5-0 to take no action under prosecutorial discretion. The file closed effective April 1, 1997, and is archived.

A merits finding, compliance, exoneration, a violation, or liability.


Respondent self-description reported · no status decision

Respondents described the institution as a house ministry; the FTC did not decide its religious status.

Federal Trade Commission, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Supreme Court of the United States

The Commission affirmed the administrative findings and issued a final cease-and-desist order on December 18, 2009, followed by a modified final order on January 25, 2010. In D.C. Circuit No. 10-1064, review was denied on December 10, 2010; the Supreme Court denied certiorari in No. 10-1292 on May 23, 2011. The district court entered liability summary judgment on September 24, 2012 and final judgment on March 31, 2015, ordering $1,345,832.43 in equitable monetary relief and $3,528,000 in civil penalties, each jointly and severally across the corporate and individual defendants. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in No. 15-5155 on May 18, 2016. A May 9, 2012 civil-contempt order had been purged and vacated on May 24, 2012.

Church status or an official determination of religious status; an institution-only allocation or combined total for the ordered relief; payment, collection, outstanding-balance, refund, or redress status; current compliance; or a continuing contempt order. The source reports only the respondents’ description of the institution as a house ministry, the money was ordered jointly and severally across corporate and individual defendants, and the civil-contempt order was purged and vacated.

Consolidated Commission decision and order · FTC Docket 9329

Commission final order · issued December 18, 2009

Commission modified final order · issued January 25, 2010

Judgment denying review · D.C. Cir. 10-1064

Order list denying certiorari · Supreme Court 10-1292

District-court memorandum opinion · D.D.C. 1:10-cv-01362-EGS

District-court final order · D.D.C. 1:10-cv-01362-EGS

Official appellate judgment · D.C. Cir. 15-5155


Religious Society of Friends: Quakers of Purchase, New York

Respondent first-party self-description for the exact entity in an official FEC filing · no status decision

The FEC-indexed respondent filing identifies Respondent Quakers as Purchase Meeting, Religious Society of Friends within MUR 6092. This is an exact within-matter first-party self-description only, not an FEC adjudication of religious or tax status, and it does not establish legal-name continuity or current identity.

The Commission voted 5-0 to find no reason to believe that the institution violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and closed the file.

Respondent status is not a finding of misconduct. The first-party filing does not establish FEC-adjudicated religious or tax status, legal-name continuity, or current identity. The no-reason-to-believe disposition establishes no broader exoneration or current-compliance conclusion.

Official FEC-indexed respondent filing · FEC MUR 6092

Official final certification · FEC MUR 6092


The FEC certification names the synagogue, and the approved FEC analysis expressly describes it as a religious organization.

Respondent-specific final Commission vote date

The Commission voted 6-0 to take no action as to the institution in light of the statute of limitations and closed the file as to it. The approved analysis also reports insufficient information and cites limitations, priorities, and limited resources. On October 16, 2015, the Commission voted 5-1 to close the entire file.

The no-action disposition did not resolve the allegations on the merits and does not establish a violation, liability, innocence, or exoneration.

Official respondent-specific certification · FEC MUR 6528

Official final notification and approved analysis · FEC MUR 6528

Official entire-file close certification · FEC MUR 6528


International Buddhist Progress Society, Inc. d/b/a Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple

The executed FEC agreement identifies the exact corporate respondent and trade name, calls the Temple a Buddhist monastery, and states that it is a tax-exempt religious organization.

5-0 Commission acceptance and closure vote date

The Commission voted 5-0 to accept the institution-specific probable-cause conciliation agreement and close the files as to the institution. The agreement became effective on November 27, 2000, and requires a $120,000 civil penalty. It reports institution-specific probable-cause findings under 2 U.S.C. §§ 441b(a) and 441f for corporate conduit contributions and contributions in others’ names, plus a separate corporate-facilitation finding under section 441b(a).

This administrative conciliation is not a court judgment, and the agreement does not state an admission. The institution maintained that the violations did not occur or were not proved, while agreeing not to contest the probable-cause findings further to settle. Payment is not asserted. A separate section 441e(a) finding was not attributed to the institution, and the matter page’s section 441a citation is not promoted beyond the executed agreement.

Official executed conciliation agreement · FEC MURs 4530 and 4531

Official acceptance and closure certification · FEC MURs 4530 and 4531


Exact legal entity linked to a separate official religious-identity record

An official Ninth Circuit opinion identifies this exact Oregon corporation and describes its stated Islamic purpose, prayer-house activity, and religious-publication activity; it does not adjudicate statutory religious status.

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Written-judgment date; corporate guilty plea entered 2014-07-29

The corporation pleaded guilty on July 29, 2014, to one count of filing a materially false Form 990. The August 6 written judgment imposed three years of probation. DOJ reported that before the plea, $121,275 was paid as taxes, penalties, and interest.

A terrorism-financing or material-support conviction, the destination or use of funds, or facts about a similarly named foreign affiliate. The $121,275 is not a criminal fine or restitution. The underlying D.E. 652 and D.E. 662 text is PACER-only and was not retrieved, and probation completion is not asserted.

Official DOJ corporate plea and sentence summary

Official identity opinion · Ninth Circuit

Official FJC docket capture · D. Or. 6:05-cr-60008-HO


Exact institution linked to a separate official religious-identity record

The FEC action names the exact institution. A separate DOJ OIG source describes it as a national Islamic organization and national endorser for Muslim chaplains; that description is not a statutory-status adjudication.

5-0 institution-specific Commission vote and file-closure date

FEC reason-to-believe threshold · no further action

The Commission voted 5-0 to find reason to believe under former 2 U.S.C. § 441b(a), while simultaneously taking no further action and closing the file as to the institution. The December 20, 1993 notice cautioned future compliance.

Reason to believe is an investigative threshold. The reviewed action records no probable-cause finding, conciliation agreement, civil penalty, court judgment, admission, or adjudicated violation for the institution. The admonishment is not a monetary penalty, and respondent status is not a finding.

Official archived case file · FEC MUR 3492

Official final-action release · FEC MUR 3492

Official religious-identity source · DOJ OIG

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General


The Department settlement names the exact legal entity. A separate published Fourth Circuit opinion uses that legal name and describes Liberty as a Christian higher education institution; it does not adjudicate statutory religious status.

U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid, Clery Group

Final-program-review date and settlement effective date

Administrative final determination and settlement

Federal Student Aid issued the final program review determination and the settlement became effective on March 5, 2024. The determination sustained and closed Findings 1 through 11 for purposes of the review, while Finding 12 was not sustained and was closed. The settlement imposed a $14,000,000 fine and separately required $2,000,000 in Clery Act expenditures during post-review monitoring.

This administrative final determination and settlement is not a court judgment. The $2,000,000 expenditure requirement is not part of the $14,000,000 fine. The sources do not establish payment, expenditure completion, monitoring completion, or current compliance; Finding 12 is not an adverse final finding. The agreement states that it is not an admission beyond compliance concerns acknowledged in prior correspondence; it is neither a blanket admission nor a blanket no-liability determination.

Official final program review determination

Official religious-identity opinion · Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit


Exact institution linked to a first-party religious-identity record

The OCR action and Baylor mission page name the exact university. Baylor describes its mission as integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment, its Baptist affiliation, and its status as a Baptist university. Religious identity is separate from the action merits.

U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Dallas Office

Agency resolution-letter and signed-agreement date

Voluntary resolution · investigation closed before findings

OCR approved a voluntary Section 302 accessibility resolution before completing the investigation, accepted the signed agreement, and closed the investigation subject to monitoring.

A final OCR violation finding, admission, court judgment, current compliance, or monitoring completion. The agreement expressly contains a no-admission clause.

Official OCR resolution letter · Complaint 06-19-2074

Official OCR resolution agreement · Complaint 06-19-2074

First-party religious-education identity · mission statement


OCR reported preliminary potential accessibility concerns, accepted a voluntary Section 302 agreement before completing the investigation, and closed the investigation subject to monitoring.

A final OCR violation finding, admission, court judgment, current compliance, or monitoring completion. Preliminary concerns and a voluntary resolution are not final merits findings.

Official OCR resolution letter · Complaint 06-19-2144

Official OCR resolution agreement · Complaint 06-19-2144


The FSA action and Baylor mission page name the exact university. Baylor describes its mission as integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment, its Baptist affiliation, and its status as a Baptist university. Religious identity is separate from the action merits.

U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid

Final administrative agency action · adverse

Federal Student Aid imposed a final $401,656 Clery Act fine after Baylor accepted the assessed fine and did not appeal. A later OCR letter states that Department records show the exact fine was paid in full.

A court judgment, a blanket institutional admission, or current compliance. The August 7 notice package contains conflicting $461,656 and $401,656 totals; only the September 3 final imposition amount is reported, and the larger figure is not treated as another obligation.

Official FSA final fine-imposition letter · Bill AAA202004045

Official FSA fine notice package · amount-variance source

Official OCR findings letter · paid-in-full statement


Agency findings with executed resolution agreement

OCR identified Title IX violations and compliance concerns for Allegation 1, separately dismissed Allegation 2 because credible information showed a private settlement had resolved it, and accepted an executed resolution agreement.

A court judgment, institution admission, current compliance, or monitoring completion. The agreement’s no-admission clause does not erase OCR’s findings, while the separate private-settlement dismissal is not a merits finding.

Official OCR Letter of Finding · Docket 06162331

Official OCR resolution agreement · Complaint 06162331


The FTC action names the exact entity. A separate Federal Register source describes Adventist Health System West as a California religious corporation; that source label is not a statutory-status adjudication.

The Commission affirmed the Administrative Law Judge and dismissed the complaint in its April 1, 1994 final order. The reviewed official sources establish no violation and no penalty against the institution.

Complaint allegations are omitted and cannot be treated as established facts, misconduct, liability, or a basis for an adverse label. This record is a final merits dismissal.

Official FTC final decision · Docket 9234

Official religious-identity source · Federal Register

Federal Register via U.S. Government Publishing Office


Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation

Exact legal entity linked to a first-party religious-identity record

The DOJ agreement names the exact legal entity. A separate first-party Form 990 states that the entity was established and sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The first-party system listing and agreement support only the bounded collective scope of the other named action parties; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. Department of Justice + HHS Office of Inspector General

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

The five named institutional parties executed a civil settlement of agreement-defined federal claims. The agreement states an exact $8,714,740 settlement amount: three named hospital entities state that amount, and the two named system entities are jointly and severally liable with them for the full amount. The government contentions were not admitted.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, a per-entity allocation of the collective amount, payment, collection, completion, current compliance, current institutional status, or conduct beyond the agreement-defined claims. The record does not assign the collective amount solely to the classified entity.

Official executed DOJ settlement agreement · 97-146-CV-ORL-19

Official DOJ release · 6:97-CV-146-ORL-31C

First-party Form 990 · sponsorship and control record


U.S. District Courts for the Middle District of Florida and Western District of Texas

The five named Adventist Health institutional parties executed a civil settlement of agreement-defined federal claims. The agreement also covers a separately defined institutional group and states that the Adventist entities disputed the government contentions.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, collection, completion, current compliance, current institutional status, or conduct beyond the agreement-defined claims. The agreement contains multiple principal, credit, group-allocation, and variable-interest terms; this display intentionally states no monetary amount or per-entity allocation.

Official executed DOJ settlement agreement · 5:00-cv-47-Oc-10B / SA01CA0256EP


The DOJ action names the exact legal entity. A separate first-party Form 990 states that the entity was established and sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

DOJ announced that the exact legal entity agreed to pay $5,412,502 in a partial civil settlement of allegations in 8:13-CV-206-T-23AEP. The release states that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, the broader case result, payment, collection, completion, current compliance, current institutional status, or a result beyond the announcement-defined partial settlement.

First-party Form 990 · sponsorship record


DOJ announced a civil settlement of allegations against the exact legal entity in 8:13-cv-710-T-27-EAJ. The release states that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, collection, completion, current compliance, current institutional status, or a result beyond the announcement-defined settlement. The source reports a rounded obligation and a prior repayment credit included within it; this display intentionally states no monetary amount or derived net.

Official DOJ action record · 8:13-cv-710-T-27-EAJ


The DOJ agreement names the exact legal entity. A separate first-party Ascension record identifies Ascension Health Alliance as the parent holding company of Ascension Health and identifies Ascension Health as a Catholic nonprofit healthcare system; religious identity was not adjudicated in the action.

U.S. Department of Justice · Immigrant and Employee Rights Section

DOJ settlement-announcement date; the respondent signature is dated one day earlier and the government signature date is not visible in the reviewed agreement

Agency reasonable-cause settlement · no court judgment or admission

The executed DOJ agreement records the agency's reasonable-cause conclusion and resolves the administrative investigation by settlement. It requires an $84,832 civil penalty from Ascension Health Alliance only. This is an agency conclusion and settlement, not a court judgment or institution admission.

Payment or collection, current compliance, current institutional status, repeat conduct, affiliate liability, or a court adjudication. The agreement uses DJ #197-33-177 in later reporting and resolution terms; that internal source typo variance is preserved here but is not counted as a second action identifier.

Official executed DOJ agreement · DJ #197-37-177

First-party parent and Catholic-system identity record


The DOJ action identifies Genesys Health System. Separate first-party Ascension records identify Genesys as an Ascension ministry and identify the parent system as Catholic; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

DOJ announced that Genesys Health System, as the announced settling payor, agreed to pay $669,413 to resolve allegations in Civil Action No. 06-10550.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment or collection, current compliance, current institutional status, affiliate liability, or an amount assigned to the other captioned institutional party.

First-party Genesys ministry and regional-system record


The DOJ action identifies Ascension Michigan and the bounded related-hospital group. Separate first-party Ascension records identify the regional ministry group within the Catholic Ascension system; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

DOJ announced a source-rounded $2.8 million settlement for Ascension Michigan and the related hospitals collectively. The official release states that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, an exact-cent amount, a per-entity allocation, payment or collection, current compliance, current institutional status, or liability for an unlisted affiliate. The collective amount is not duplicated across the named institutions.

Official DOJ release PDF · No. 17-CV-12315

First-party Ascension Michigan regional-system record


Exact legal entity linked through a first-party religious parent-control record

The DOJ action names the exact two-entity action group. Separate first-party records identify Ascension Providence as a Catholic ministry, Providence Park, Inc. as an Ascension Health Alliance subsidiary, and the parent system as Catholic; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

DOJ announced a $6,526,851.64 settlement for Providence Park, Inc. and Ascension Providence collectively. The official source states that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, a per-entity allocation, payment or collection, current compliance, current institutional status, or liability beyond the two named institutions. The collective amount is not duplicated across them and no secondary shares are added.

Official DOJ action record · No. 5:21-CV-269

First-party Ascension Providence Catholic-ministry record

First-party Providence Park subsidiary record


The CMS decision identifies the exact provider and case. Separate first-party and official institutional records connect Mercy General Health Partners to the Catholic-sponsored Trinity Health system; those later relationship sources do not adjudicate action-time religious status.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

CMS Administrator and Provider Reimbursement Review Board

For Issue No. 2, the CMS Administrator reversed the Board and found that the intermediary properly denied the claimed Medicare bad-debt reimbursement. The incorporated result applies to the Mercy General case, for which the source states that Medicare bad debts were the only issue.

Misconduct, fraud, wrongdoing, a penalty, recovery, payment, collection, current status, action-time religious status, or any result for Battle Creek Health System. This is an administrative reimbursement ruling on the stated issue. Companion PRRB Case 02-0431 is excluded, and the decision-wide Issue No. 1 result is not attributed to Mercy General.

Official CMS Administrator decision · 2004-D40 / 02-0364

First-party exact-institution relationship record

Official institutional relationship attachment


The EEOC action names Trinity Health Corporation. A separate first-party audited statement identifies that corporation and its subsidiaries as a Catholic-sponsored system; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

The EEOC announced a consent-decree settlement resolving Civil Action 3:11-CV-00309-RLM-CAN against Trinity Health Corporation, including a $25,000 single-party damages obligation plus institutional injunctive, training, notice, and reporting terms. The record remains a settlement rather than an adjudicated merits finding.

An adjudicated violation, an admission, payment, decree completion, current compliance, current institutional status, action-time religious status, affiliate liability, or conduct beyond this action.

Official EEOC settlement release · 3:11-CV-00309-RLM-CAN

First-party Catholic sponsorship and system record


Trinity Health-Michigan, d/b/a Mercy Health St. Mary’s

The EEOC action gives the exact party and system-member relationship. A separate first-party audited statement places the Michigan region in the Catholic-sponsored Trinity Health system; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

The EEOC announced a consent-decree settlement resolving Civil Action 1:23-cv-00435 against the exact Trinity Health-Michigan party. The headline reports $50,000, while the source-listed $11,348 back-pay and $38,651 non-economic-damages components sum to $49,999; both source forms are preserved without inventing a balancing dollar. The record remains a settlement rather than an adjudicated merits finding.

An adjudicated violation, an admission, payment, decree completion, current compliance, later affiliation, affiliate liability, or conduct beyond this action.

Official EEOC settlement release · 1:23-cv-00435

First-party Catholic sponsorship and regional-system record


Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West, Inc.)

The executed DOJ agreement names the exact Dignity Health party and its former name. A separate first-party Dignity/CommonSpirit record supplies the religious-system lineage; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Dignity Health executed a civil settlement tied to CV C 09-5604 JCS. The agreement states $36,744,423 in collective principal for the defined Dignity Health parties plus 2.37% annual interest from September 23, 2014 through the day before payment; DOJ’s $37 million headline is a rounded representation of that same obligation, not a second amount. The official announcement states that the resolved claims were allegations only and that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, collection, current compliance, current affiliation, affiliate liability, a per-entity allocation, or conduct beyond the agreement-defined settlement.

Official executed DOJ settlement agreement · CV C 09-5604 JCS

First-party Dignity and CommonSpirit identity record


The DOJ action names the exact Dignity Health operating party. A separate first-party Dignity/CommonSpirit record supplies the religious-system lineage; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

DOJ announcement date; the underlying settlement is described only as occurring in December 2020

DOJ announced a $10 million collective civil settlement tied to CV-17-00692-PHX-JZB for Dignity Health, d/b/a St. Joseph’s Hospital and a separately named co-party. The amount is not allocated between them. The exact Dignity Health party made no admission or concession of liability in the source-described resolution.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, collection, current compliance, current affiliation, liability for a co-party, a per-entity allocation, or conduct beyond this settlement.

Official DOJ action record · CV-17-00692-PHX-JZB


The executed agreement names Dignity Health and its CommonSpirit successor relationship. A separate first-party Dignity/CommonSpirit record supplies the religious-system lineage; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

DOJ announcement date; the official file name describes the agreement as fully executed on December 2, 2022

Dignity Health executed a single-entity settlement within the multi-defendant action identified as 15-cv-09834. The agreement requires $15,000,000 in principal plus 1.625% annual interest from February 4, 2022; the principal is split $13,500,000 federal and $1,500,000 California. The interest total is not calculated. DOJ states that the resolved claims were allegations only and that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, collection, current compliance, current affiliation, successor liability beyond the agreement, liability for another defendant, or a package-wide money total. The later same-action source supplies only the exact case identifier and is not a second Dignity action.

Official executed Dignity settlement agreement

Official DOJ Dignity action record · 22-1325

Official same-action exact case-ID bridge


St. Francis Physician Services, Inc.; St. Francis Hospital; and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, Inc.

The DOJ action names the exact three-institution group. Separate first-party Bon Secours Mercy Health records bind those institutions to the Catholic-sponsored system; religious identity was not adjudicated in the settlement.

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

DOJ announced one $36.5 million collective settlement for the three exact institutional parties in Case 6:18-cv-01932-DCC. The source-rounded amount appears once and is not allocated to any one institution. The official source states that the claims were allegations only and that there was no determination of liability.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, a per-entity allocation, payment, collection, current compliance, current affiliation, system-wide liability, or liability for an unnamed affiliate. No collective monetary term is re-emitted.

Official DOJ action record · Case 6:18-cv-01932-DCC

First-party parent, predecessor, facility, and Catholic identity record

First-party regional Catholic health-system record


Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center

The CMS instruments identify the exact provider and cases. A separate first-party Bon Secours Mercy Health disclosure supplies the facility-to-system and Catholic-sponsorship chain; religious identity was not adjudicated in the administrative action.

Provider Reimbursement Review Board and CMS Administrator

CMS Administrator approval declining review; Board merits decision dated September 15, 2023

The Board found that the Medicare Contractor properly adjusted the provider’s NAH Part C Managed Care payment for fiscal years 2010 through 2013. The CMS Administrator declined review, closing final agency posture for the stated cases.

Misconduct, fraud, wrongdoing, a civil or criminal penalty, a recovery amount, payment, collection, current compliance, current institutional status, broader system liability, or an outcome for another provider. This is an administrative reimbursement ruling on the stated issue; national pool and reimbursement figures in the opinion are not action recoveries or penalties.

Official PRRB merits decision · 2023-D32

Official CMS Administrator decline-to-review instrument · 2023-D32

First-party facility, system, and Catholic identity record


The CMS instruments identify the exact provider and case. A separate first-party Bon Secours Mercy Health disclosure supplies the facility-to-system and Catholic-sponsorship chain; religious identity was not adjudicated in the administrative action.

CMS Administrator approval declining review; Board merits decision dated June 27, 2024

For fiscal year 2014, the Board found that the Medicare Contractor properly excluded the NAH Part C no-pay-bill data and properly disallowed the Medicare bad debts at issue. The CMS Administrator declined review.

Misconduct, fraud, wrongdoing, a civil or criminal penalty, a recovery amount, payment, collection, current compliance, current institutional status, broader system liability, or an outcome for another provider. This is an administrative reimbursement ruling on the stated issues; the disputed bad-debt amount is not an agency penalty, recovery, payment, or collection.

Official PRRB merits decision · 2024-D19

Official CMS Administrator decline-to-review instrument · 2024-D19


Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio

The official NLRB action summary identifies the exact employer as a religious order; this is a source label, not a statutory-status adjudication.

Representation case · jurisdiction declined

The NLRB annual report states that a Board majority declined to assert jurisdiction because the services were supplied on a noncommercial basis in connection with and in furtherance of religious objectives.

This representation-case jurisdiction disposition is not an unfair labor practice adjudication, wrongdoing finding, or penalty. The receipt does not assert petition dismissal because the underlying decision text was not separately acquired.

Official NLRB annual report · 232 NLRB No. 44

Official NLRB representation-case outline


The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The SEC order identifies the respondent as a Utah corporation sole organized and operated to carry out the purposes of the faith. That official description is not a separate statutory religious-status adjudication.

SEC Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-21306

The Commission entered a settled cease-and-desist order finding that the Church caused Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc.’s violations of Exchange Act Section 13(f)(1) and Rule 13f-1. The order requires the Church to cease and desist and pay a $1,000,000 civil money penalty.

This is a settled SEC administrative order, not a court judgment. The respondents did not admit or deny the findings except for Commission jurisdiction and the subject matter. The separate $4,000,000 co-respondent penalty is not attributed to the Church, and payment completion is not asserted.

Official settled cease-and-desist order · SEC File 3-21306


Judicial religious-status determination · limited statutory scope

The Ninth Circuit held that the institution’s purpose and character are primarily religious and that, as a church, it is clearly religious for the Title VII religious-organization exemption. That determination is limited to Title VII in this action.

District of Arizona No. 2:14-cv-02225-DGC

Judicial affirmance for institution · no adverse finding

The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for The Salvation Army. It held that the Title VII religious-organization exemption foreclosed the Title VII claims and affirmed summary judgment on the ADA claim. The disposition imposed no violation finding, penalty, or monetary relief against the institution.

Universal compliance, the merits of conduct not adjudicated in this action, or religious status under tax law or any statute other than the Title VII exemption applied here.

Official preserved published opinion · Ninth Circuit No. 16-16827

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit via GovInfo

Official published opinion · Ninth Circuit No. 16-16827


Official action record gives a religious-system affiliation

The HHS-OIG action release identifies the Stockton hospital as part of the Catholic Healthcare West hospital system. This is an official-source affiliation, not a statutory religious-status determination, and it was not a merits element.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

HHS Departmental Appeals Board, Civil Remedies Division

HHS DAB Docket No. C-08-296
HHS DAB Decision No. CR1895

An HHS administrative law judge found that St. Joseph’s Medical Center contravened EMTALA’s screening requirement and sustained the Inspector General’s institution-only $50,000 civil money penalty.

A settlement, a federal-court judgment, later administrative or judicial review, payment or collection of the penalty, current compliance, or any inference from the religious-system affiliation.

Official HHS DAB administrative-law decision · CR1895

Official HHS-OIG action release and affiliation source


Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development

Official action record gives a religious-affinity description

The DOJ institution-specific sentencing summary describes the exact corporation as a U.S. Muslim charity. This is an official action-source description, not a statutory religious-status adjudication.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Fifth Circuit consolidated lead 09-10560

DOJ’s institution-specific sentencing summary reports a 31-count corporate conviction and May 27, 2009 sentence: one year of supervised release and forfeiture of frozen assets. The Fifth Circuit later dismissed the corporation’s appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction without reaching the merits.

Merits affirmance of the corporate conviction on appeal, current corporate status, sentence or forfeiture completion, or payment or collection. The reported $12.4 million judgment was joint with multiple defendants and is excluded from institution-only money totals.

Official DOJ institution-specific sentencing summary

Official GovInfo preservation copy · Fifth Circuit 10-10590


The final EEOC release expressly describes the exact institution as an independent Baptist church. This is an official action-source label, not a statutory religious-status adjudication.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division

The EEOC announced that a consent decree would settle Civil Action No. 1:15-cv-3816-WBH for $25,000 and institution-level policy, training, reporting, and notice terms.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, court-entry date, decree completion, current compliance, or conduct outside this settlement.

Official EEOC final settlement release · Civil Action 1:15-cv-3816-WBH


Greenforest-McCalep Christian Academic Center

The final EEOC release describes the action party as a Baptist church school, a Christian school, and a subsidiary of Greenforest Community Baptist Church. The academic center is typed as a religious education entity, not a strict church.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-1227
Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-2694

The EEOC announced two consent-decree settlements covering the two civil actions for a combined $53,000 and institution-level policy, training, reporting, and notice terms.

An adjudicated merits finding. The institution denied wrongdoing; the source does not establish payment, court-entry dates, decree completion, or current compliance.

Official EEOC final two-action settlement release


The Washington DFI order states that the exact institution uses investment funds to finance loans to member churches and other church-related organizations of the Wesleyan Church Corporation. This is an official religious-affinity description, not an adjudication of church or tax status.

Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, Securities Division

Washington DFI entered a consent order concluding a securities-registration violation, ordering the institution to cease and desist, imposing a $10,000 fine, and charging $1,500 in investigative costs.

An antifraud violation, a fraud finding, an admission, or payment or collection. The respondent neither admitted nor denied the order’s findings and conclusions.

Official Washington DFI consent order · S-20-3055-21-CO01


The California Attorney General’s binding transaction conditions require the exact institution to remain culturally sensitive to the Jewish community and maintain an on-site synagogue and religious and spiritual leadership. This is an official religious-affinity description, not a statutory-status adjudication.

California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General

Conditional regulatory approval · no violation finding

The California Attorney General conditionally consented to the proposed change in control and governance subject to incorporated operating, service, cultural, and reporting conditions.

A violation, wrongdoing finding, monetary penalty, or compliance outside the approved transaction. This is a nonadverse regulatory approval with conditions.

Official California Attorney General transaction decision · LA2019503289


The DOJ action names the exact legal entity. A separate first-party sponsorship document identifies Catholic Health System and states that its religious sponsors maintain the system’s Catholic sponsorship and identity; that evidence is used only for classification and was not a merits element.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

DOJ reported that Catholic Health System, Inc. agreed to pay $3,293,122.66 to resolve False Claims Act allegations arising from asserted Stark Law issues.

A merits judgment, an admission, payment or collection, current compliance, or a repeat-offense inference. The official release says the resolved claims were allegations only and that there was no determination of liability.

Official DOJ release · W.D.N.Y. 20-cv-1482

First-party religious sponsorship document


The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, Inc.

The EEOC action names the exact legal entity. A separate first-party overview identifies the General Board of Global Ministries as the global mission, relief, and development agency of The United Methodist Church. The action party is classified as a denominational mission agency, not a local church or congregation.

The EEOC announced a consent-decree settlement of Civil Action No. 1:19-CV-2989-MHC-CMS for $50,000 and institution-level training, policy, notice, reporting, and monitoring terms.

An adjudicated merits finding, an admission, payment, court-entry date, decree completion, current compliance, local-church status, or religious status under tax law or another statute.

Official EEOC final settlement release · Civil Action 1:19-CV-2989-MHC-CMS

First-party denominational mission-agency overview


The Washington action names Providence Health & Services - Washington. A separate first-party annual report identifies the Providence system as Catholic-sponsored and Providence Health & Services as the sole corporate member of the exact action party. This bounded parent-control chain is a weaker affiliation tier; it does not independently classify the three named healthcare affiliates as religious organizations.

Washington State Office of the Attorney General

King County Superior Court 22-2-01754-6 SEA

Official resolution-announcement and filing date

The Attorney General announced a court-filed consent resolution covering the classified action party and three named healthcare affiliates. At the collective action level, the resolution requires $18,465,687.95 in refund principal plus $2,215,882.55 in one-time simple interest, approximately $11,381,494.76 in newly required write-offs, a separate $4,534,312.05 state payment including a $2,500,000 fees-and-costs component, and five years of institutional injunctive terms. Those components are not allocated solely to Providence Health & Services - Washington. The decree separately recites $125,802,665 in previously represented write-offs; it is not newly ordered relief.

A trial or adjudication, an admission beyond allegations necessary for court jurisdiction, an imposed civil penalty, payment or completion, current compliance, allocation of the collective monetary components solely to the classified party, or religious identity for the named affiliates. The reviewed party-signed copy has blank judge and date fields, so this record does not independently claim judicial entry.

Official Washington Attorney General final-resolution release

Official versioned consent-decree copy · 22-2-01754-6 SEA

First-party Catholic sponsorship and corporate-control record


The Alabama Securities Commission consent order expressly identifies the exact primary institution as a nonprofit religious organization and church. The strict-church classification applies only to Trinity Life Church, not the separately named incorporated respondent.

AL ASC Cease and Desist Order CD-2002-0015

Commission approval date on executed final consent order

The Alabama Securities Commission entered final consent order CO-2002-0015, concluded registration violations, required Trinity Life Church, Inc. to maintain procedures intended to prevent future noncompliance, resolved predecessor order CD-2002-0015, closed the matter and investigation, and imposed no penalty.

A willful violation, fraud or misrepresentation, intent to defraud or mislead, a contested adjudication, a monetary penalty, current compliance, or religious or church identity for Trinity Life Church, Inc. The order found the registration violations unintentional and without intent to defraud or mislead.

Official Alabama Securities Commission consent order · CO-2002-0015


The official New York Attorney General release identifies the exact order party as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. This supports a diocese-level religious governing-entity classification only; it does not classify any parish, school, affiliate, employee, or person.

New York State Office of the Attorney General

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

S.D.N.Y. 1:21-cv-00189-RA
ECF Document 38

Federal docket filing and court-entry date

On October 25, 2022, the federal court entered a stipulated final order fully and finally resolving the causes of action. The institution-level terms require governance controls and independent annual compliance audits for three cycles, with a possible extension to five; the non-audit provisions run five years from the separately defined effective date.

An admission, adjudicated factual or liability finding, civil penalty, restitution, damages award, settlement payment to the state or claimants, effective date, implementation, auditor appointment, audit extension, payment, or current compliance. The effective date depends on bankruptcy-court approval of auditor retention, and the institution’s auditor cost is unquantified.

Official court-entered stipulated final order · ECF Document 38


Church Extension of the Church of God, Inc.

SEC Litigation Release No. 17623 identifies the exact institution as an Indiana-based religious entity and the fundraising entity of a long-established church, formed to raise funds for church construction and renovation. This supports classification as a religious financing entity only; it does not classify the institution as a church or adjudicate religious or tax status.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 1610

Federal court consent judgment · no admission or merits adjudication

The SEC announced that the court entered a final consent judgment permanently enjoining Church Extension and one institutional affiliate under Securities Act Section 17(a), Exchange Act Section 10(b), and Rule 10b-5, and ordering the two institutions collectively to pay approximately $81 million in disgorgement.

A merits adjudication or admission. The approximately $81 million is collective and unallocated between the two institutional defendants. The reviewed release does not establish payment, collection, completion, loss, current compliance, conservatorship, restructuring, person-level relief, or religious identity for the affiliate. The filed judgment body was not linked from the reviewed release and was not reviewed.

Official SEC final consent-judgment announcement · LR-17656 / AAER-1610

Official SEC exact-institution identity release · LR-17623 / AAER-1598


The Arkansas consent order identifies the exact respondent as a section 501(c)(3) not-for-profit and states that its activities consist primarily of financing loans to member churches and organizations. This supports classification as a religious financing entity only; it does not classify the respondent or any financed or member organization as a church, adjudicate religious status, or establish current tax or organizational status.

The Arkansas Securities Commissioner entered a final consent order concluding a securities-registration violation under Ark. Code Ann. section 23-42-501, ordering a $7,300 fine due upon entry, requiring a rescission offer, and ordering the institution to cease and desist from soliciting, offering, or selling securities in Arkansas unless registered, exempt, or covered.

A contested evidentiary adjudication, an antifraud violation, fraud or misrepresentation, a general wrongdoing admission, or a general non-admission. The institution admitted jurisdiction, waived a formal hearing and appeal, and consented to entry, the Undertaking, and all order terms. The reviewed order does not establish fine payment, rescission acceptance, payment, or completion, current compliance, loss, or any person-level outcome.

Official Arkansas Securities Department final consent order · S-20-0050-21-OR01


The Tennessee consent order identifies the exact respondent as a Tennessee nonprofit corporation, describes its church-extension-fund promissory-note activity, and identifies its predecessor as the Church of God Department of Stewardship. This supports classification as a religious financing entity only; it does not classify the foundation as a local church, create a separate action record for its predecessor, adjudicate religious status, or establish current tax or organizational status.

Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, Securities Division

Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance

Commissioner-entered order date corroborated by the official index

The Tennessee Commissioner entered a final consent order. The institution admitted jurisdiction and the Findings of Fact, waived a hearing and appeal, and consented to entry, while expressly neither admitting nor denying the Conclusions of Law. The Commissioner concluded a registration violation under Tenn. Code Ann. section 48-2-104. The order separately required a conditional cease and desist, rescission offers and opt-in repurchases, and a $5,050 investor-education contribution.

A contested evidentiary adjudication, an admitted legal conclusion, an antifraud violation, fraud, generalized wrongdoing, or a civil penalty. The $5,050 is an investor-education contribution, not a civil penalty. The reviewed sources do not establish contribution payment, rescission response, repurchase or remedy completion, present compliance, current status, loss, or any person-level outcome.

Official Tennessee Securities Division consent order · Order 11-013

Official Tennessee Securities Division consent-order index


Respondent self-description reported in an official FCC order · no status decision

FCC DA 04-3249 captions the exact institutional party as Victory & Power Ministries, Inc., supplies WPFC(AM) and FCC Registration Number 0008-0778-77, and reports the respondent's description of its gospel-station and church operation. That respondent self-description supports only the nonchurch religious-ministry research filter. The FCC did not adjudicate religious, nonprofit, or tax status, and religious identity was unrelated to the broadcast-law merits. A later official audit list supplies Facility ID 31172 as historical station continuity only.

FCC final order adopted date; released October 15, 2004

The FCC entered a final forfeiture order concluding three willful violations: 47 C.F.R. section 11.35(a) for EAS operational readiness, 47 C.F.R. section 73.49 for antenna fencing, and 47 C.F.R. section 73.3526(c) for public-file availability. It reduced the $25,000 proposed aggregate forfeiture by $5,000 based on a confirmed history of overall compliance considered in that action and ordered an unallocated aggregate $20,000 forfeiture.

This final agency merits disposition is not an NAL-only allegation, consent, or settlement. The $20,000 final aggregate is not allocated among the three violations. Conditional payment and possible-referral instructions do not establish payment, nonpayment, collection, referral, an installment arrangement, an outstanding balance, reconsideration, appeal exhaustion, present compliance, current station or organizational status, nonprofit or tax status, or wrongdoing outside this exact action. The history finding does not establish current compliance, and the FCC granted no inability-to-pay reduction. Facility ID 31172 and the 2022 random-audit listing are historical station-continuity evidence only; random audit selection is not an adverse finding. Shared registration and station evidence does not establish that the Inc. and non-Inc. captions are one legal entity, a succession, a name change, or a current legal name.

Official FCC final forfeiture order · DA 04-3249

Official FCC quarterly NAL summary · DA 03-1446

Official FCC 2022 random-audit list · historical continuity only


Respondent self-description linked by FCC registration and station · no legal-entity continuity finding

FCC DA 10-2321 captions the exact institutional party as Victory & Power Ministries and supplies WPFC(AM), FCC Registration Number 0008077877, and Facility ID 31172. The same normalized FCC registration number and station connect this action to the separate official order that reports the respondent's self-description. That registration-and-station bridge supports only the nonchurch religious-ministry research filter; it does not establish legal-entity continuity, succession, a name change, or a current legal name. The FCC did not adjudicate religious, nonprofit, or tax status, and religious identity was unrelated to the broadcast-law merits.

FCC final order adopted date; released December 8, 2010

The FCC entered a final forfeiture order concluding a willful violation of 47 C.F.R. section 73.3539 for a late renewal application and a willful and repeated violation of 47 U.S.C. section 301 for unauthorized station operation. The underlying FCC DA 07-592 proposed $3,000 and $4,000 components, for a $7,000 aggregate proposal; FCC DA 10-2321 ordered an unallocated aggregate $7,000 forfeiture with no reduction.

This final agency merits disposition is not an NAL-only allegation, consent, or settlement. The $3,000 and $4,000 figures are proposal components in FCC DA 07-592, not allocated components of the final order. The 2007 renewal grant does not negate the concluded violations. Conditional payment and referral instructions do not establish payment, nonpayment, collection, referral, an installment arrangement, an outstanding balance, reconsideration, appeal exhaustion, present compliance, current station or organizational status, nonprofit or tax status, or wrongdoing outside this exact action. Shared FCC Registration Number 0008077877 and WPFC(AM), including Facility ID 31172 in later sources, establish registration and station continuity only; they do not establish that the Inc. and non-Inc. captions identify one legal entity, a succession, a name change, or a current legal name.

Official FCC final forfeiture order · DA 10-2321

Official FCC underlying NAL and renewal order · DA 07-592

Official FCC 2012 renewal notice · historical continuity only