Showing posts with label Ecclesiastical abstention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ecclesiastical abstention. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court: Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply to Church Property Ownership Dispute

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In Ex parte The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, Inc. , (AL Sup. Ct., April 12, 2024), the Alabama Supreme Co...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Church Property Dispute

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 In Sails v. Weeks ,  (AL Sup. Ct., April 5, 2024), the Alabama Supreme Court by a vote of 8-1, without an opinion for the majority, affirme...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Civil Conspiracy Claims Against Religious Organization Survive 1st Amendment Defenses

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In re Gothard , (TX App., Feb. 22, 2024), is a mandamus action that is essentially an appeal of a trial court's refusal to dismiss civil...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Court Supervision of Church Election Invalidated by Mississippi Supreme Court

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In Melton v. Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church ,  (MS Sup. Ct., Jan. 11, 2024), the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and vacated a deci...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Pastor's Breach of Contract Suit Dismissed on Ecclesiastical Abstention Grounds

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In Craver v. Faith Lutheran Church ,  (TX App., Nov. 8, 2023), a Texas state appeals court held that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply to Church's Fraud Claims Against Former Pastor

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 In New Bethel Baptist Church v. Taylor ,  (TX App., Aug. 29, 2023), a Texas state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical abstention d...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Expelled Church Members' Claims Barred by Statute of Limitations

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In Boyett v. First Baptist Church of Bossier ,  (LA App., Aug. 9,2023), a Louisiana state appellate court in a 2-1 decision affirmed the tri...
Tuesday, August 08, 2023

9th Circuit: Fraud Claim Against LDS Church By Prominent Donor May Move Ahead

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In Huntsman v. Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ,  (9th Cir., Aug. 7, 2023), the U.S. 9th Cir...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Bars Court from Deciding Dispute Over Parish Funds

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 In  Salado v. Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso , (TX App, Aug. 2, 2023), a Texas state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical absten...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Bars Court From Interpreting Foundation's Bylaws

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In Foundation for the Advancement of Catholic Schools, Inc. v. The Most Reverend Leonard P. Blair ,  (CT Super, June 15, 2023), a Connecticu...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Suit By Florida Breakaway Methodist Churches Is Dismissed

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In Grace United Methodist Church Inc. v. Board of Trustees of FL Annual Conf of UMC Inc. ,  (FL Cir. Ct., April 18, 2023). a Florida state t...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

185 Methodist Churches in Georgia Sue Parent Body Seeking Disaffiliation

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 At the end of last month, 185 Methodist congregations in Georgia filed suit in a Georgia state trial court against their parent body and it...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Pastor's Defamation Suit Dismissed On Ecclesiastical Abstention Grounds

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In Weems v. Celebration Church of Jacksonville, Inc. , (FL Cir. Ct., Sept. 28, 2022), a Florida state trial court dismissed on ecclesiastica...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Messianic Jewish Missionaries May Proceed With Their Defamation Suit

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In One for Israel v. Reuven , (SD FL, Sept. 26, 2022), a Florida federal district court in a defamation case held that Messianic Jewish miss...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Does Not Bar Suit Over Compliance With Non-Profit Corporation Law

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 In Auguste v. Hyacinthe ,  (FL App., Sept. 7, 2022), a Florida state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does ...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Some Of Fired Pastor's Claims Can Move Ahead

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In Nation Ford Baptist Church Inc. v. Davis , (NC Sup.Ct., Aug. 19, 2020), the North Carolina Supreme Court allowed a Pastor to move ahead w...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Interlocutory Appeal Available On Charitable Immunity Ruling, But Not On Church Autonomy Holding

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In Doe v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield ,  (MA Sup. Jud. Ct., July 28, 2022), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that an d...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Deprives Civil Court Of Jurisdiction Over Seventh-Day Adventist Church Dispute

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In In re Texas Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists ,  (TX App, July 21, 2022), a Texas state appellate court held that the eccleisastical a...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Break-Away Faction In Church of God Not Entitled To Property Ownership

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In Blue v. Church of God Sanctified, Inc. ,  (TN App., June 27, 2022), a Tennessee state appellate court held that in a property dispute bet...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Bars Mississippi Courts From Adjudicating Claims Of Fired Diocese Finance Officer

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In Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi v. DeLange ,  (MS Sup. Ct., June 16, 2022), the Mississippi Supreme Court held that the ecclesia...