Editing 3HO (section)

==Governance and control==
[[File:Yogi Bhajan 1985.jpg|thumb|Yogi Bhajan (1985) founder of 3HO]]
Yogi Bhajan formed Sikh Dharma International as a California nonprofit religious corporation "organized to advance the religion of Sikh Dharma and as an association of religious organizations teaching principles of Sikh Dharma, including by ordination of ministers of divinity and operation of places of worship." During Yogi Bhajan's lifetime, Sikh Dharma International, along with related legal entities Siri Singh Sahib Corporation and Unto Infinity LLC, were held and controlled by Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma, a California "corporation sole" of which Yogi Bhajan was the only shareholder.<ref name="9thCir">{{cite court |litigants=Puri v. Khalsa |vol=844 |reporter=F.3d |opinion=1152 |pinpoint=slip op. at 5-9, 33 |court=9th Cir. |date=2017 |url=https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/01/06/13-36024.pdf |access-date=2018-11-08 }}</ref> Following the Yogi's death in 2004, a dispute ensued over the governance of those entities and assets. Yogi Bhajan's wife, Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, alleged that she had been appointed to the board of Unto Infinity, and that she and their three children were appointed to the Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma board of directors (and thus in a position to exert significant control over all of the Sikh Dharma legal entities); but that following Yogi Bhajan's death the other board members of those entities improperly prevented them from taking part in governance. In January 2017, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the lawsuit was not on its face an ecclesiastical dispute.<ref name="9thCir"/><ref name="death">{{cite news |last=Pein |first=Corey |date=2011-08-24 |title=Death of a Yogi |url=http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-6242-death-of-a-yogi.html |newspaper=Santa Fe Reporter |location=Santa Fe, New Mexico |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref><ref name="pein">{{cite news |last=Pein |first=Corey |date=2010-07-07 |title=Khalsa vs. Khalsa |url=http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5502-khalsa-vs-khalsa.html |newspaper=Santa Fe Reporter |location=Santa Fe, New Mexico |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref> However, in April 2018, Chief Judge Michael Mosman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon dismissed the case.<ref name="bernstein">{{cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Maxine |date=2018-04-27 |title=Judge dismisses lawsuit over rulership of Sikh business empire |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/04/judge_dismisses_lawsuit_over_r.html |newspaper=[[The Oregonian]] |location=Portland, Oregon |access-date=2018-11-08}}</ref> Judge Mosman concluded that there was significant evidence that the 3HO corporate entities were religious in character and thus that the dispute could not be adjudicated in civil court.<ref name="bernstein"/>
[[File:3HO Summer Solstice 1970.jpg|left|thumb|3HO summer solstice 1970]]