Article May 15, 1995 Issue

Legal update

Important developments have recently occurred in two legal cases involving challenges to the healing practice of Christian Science. We have previously reported on these cases in the July 4, 1994, and August 1, 1994, issues of the Sentinel.

In a decision released on April 4, 1995, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned a jury's $9 million punitive damages award against The Mother Church in a case brought by the father of eleven-year-old Ian Lundman, who died in 1989. Ian's mother, who had sole custody of her son, had engaged a Christian Science nurse and a practitioner to provide care and treatment for him. The Court also overturned the jury's finding of negligence against the Church, the Committee on Publication for Minnesota, and a Christian Science nursing home.

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