Kern Tulare Water District v. City of Bakersfield, California

How later courts describe this case

• affirming revocation where church transferred substantial funds to corporations controlled by its founder
• church was not entitled to tax exempt status because significant amounts of the church's funds were used to benefit the founder of the church
• Policy letters, written by church founder and collected for publication by the church and as sold through the church bookstore, were adoptive admissions of the church
• newsmatter a commodity traded like any other