Tony Alamo Christian Ministries filed a brief this week urging a federal appeals court to send the case back to the federal district court that dismissed it.

Last year, the ministry and members Bert Krantz and Greg Seago, whose children had been taken by the state, filed a civil lawsuit alleging the Arkansas Department of Human services used a child abuse investigation as a pretense to disband the group.

Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes of the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas dismissed the case. He ruled that long-accepted legal ...

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