Showing posts with label Episcopal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Episcopal. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Former Priest's Defamation Claim Dismissed Under Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine

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In Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia v. Marshall ,  (VA App., July 16, 2024), a Virginia state appellate court held that a defamation p...
Thursday, May 02, 2024

Court Dismisses Suit Over Disclosure of Clergy-Penitent Conversation

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In Stephens v. Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ,  (Dutchess Cty. NY Sup. Ct., April 29, 2024), a N...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Restricting Frequency of Church Free Meal Services Violates RLUIPA

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 In St. Timothy's Episcopal Church v. City of Brookings ,  (D OR, March 27, 2024), an Oregon federal district court held that a zoning o...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Defamation Claim Not Subject to Ministerial Exception Doctrine; Discrimination and Contract Claims Are

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In Uzomechina v. Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey ,  (D NJ, Jan. 18, 2024), a New Jersey federal district court held that the ministerial exc...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Episcopal Priest Sues County Commissioners Over Invocation Policy

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Suit was filed this week in a Michigan federal district court by an Episcopal Priest in Grand Haven, Michigan, challenging the manner in whi...
Friday, May 06, 2022

Church Cannot Remove Cremated Remains Over Objections Of Families

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In  Church of the Holy Spirit of Wayland v. Heinrich , (MA App., May 5, 2022), a Massachusetts state appellate court held that a church whic...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Supreme Court Denies Certiorari In Church Property Dispute

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in two related cases, All Saints Episcopal Church v. Diocese of Fort Worth  (Docket No. 20-534) a...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

South Carolina Episcopal Parishes All Win Title To Their Property

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In Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina v. The Episcopal Church ,  (SC Common Pleas, June 19, 2020), a South Carolin...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Texas Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Break-Away Episcopal Diocese

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The Texas Supreme Court today issued a decision in the long-running property dispute between the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and its for...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Church Property Is Held In Constructive Trust For Parent Episcopal Diocese

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In  Protestant Episcopal Church v. Church of the Messiah , 2020 Va. Cir. LEXIS 52 (VA Cir. Ct., Feb. 24, 2020), which just became available...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Break-Away Diocese Cannot Use Former Trademarked Names

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In vonRosenberg v. Lawrence , (D SC, Sept. 19, 2019), a South Carolina federal district court,in a 73-page opinion, resolved a trademark dis...
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Episcopal Parish's Suit Against Its Rector Is Dismissed

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In  Parish of St. Paul's Episcopal Church v. Kovoor , 2019 Conn. Super. LEXIS 714 (CT Super. Ct., April 10, 2019), a Connecticut state t...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Albany Episcopal Bishop Defies Parent Body On Same-Sex Marriage Rites

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In July, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church passed  Resolution B012   Marriage Rites for the Whole Church,  which was designed t...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

More Rulings In South Carolina Episcopal Church Split

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Earlier this week, a South Carolina federal district court issued another opinion in the long-running battle between competing Episcopal Chu...
Saturday, April 07, 2018

Break-Away Texas Anglican Group Loses In Latest Round of Long-Running Case

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In The Episcopal Church v. Salazar ,  (TX App, April 5, 2018), a Texas state appeals court issued another ruling in a long running dispute o...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Cert. Filed In Episcopal Church Property Dispute

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed last week with the U.S. Supreme Court in Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Sou...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Ecclesiastical Abstention Requires Dismissal of Suit Over Student's Forced Withdrawal From High School

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In In re the Episcopal School of Dallas, Inc. , (TX App, Oct. 11, 2017), a Texas state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical abstenti...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

South Carolina Supreme Court Resolves Property Dispute In Episcopal Church

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In The Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina v. The Episcopal Church , (SC Sup. Ct., Aug. 2, 2017), the 5-member Sout...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

Episcopal Church Still Holds Title To Property of Break-Away Diocese

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In Diocese of San Joaquin v. Gunner ,  (CA App., April 5, 2016), a California state appeals court held that applying neutral principles of l...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

South Carolina Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Episcopal Church Split

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Yesterday, the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Protestant Episcopal Church In The Diocese of South Carolina v. Episcopa...