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Mosque bylaws require arbitration of disputes

Mosque bylaws require arbitration of disputes

Mosque bylaws require arbitration of disputes

An appellate court in New Jersey has reversed a trial court and ordered members of a mosque in Passaic County to arbitrate members’ claims of improper use of organizational funds. It has held that the participating members were subject to the “private law” set out in the bylaws of their voluntary association. Four members of the general assembly of the mosque, three of whom were also members of the board, filed a suit against nine other members, including the Imam. They claimed that one member had used the mosque’s credit card to pay personal expenses for himself and the Imam, that another had conspired to maintain a person on the mosque’s health insurance after he ceased to be an employee...

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