Showing posts with label Methodist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Methodist. Show all posts
Friday, August 23, 2024

Court Dismisses Church's Suit Over Disaffiliation Request

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In North United Methodist Church v. New York Annual Conference , (CT Super. Ct., Aug 14, 2024), a Connecticut trial court dismissed a local ...
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...
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...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

North Carolina Methodist Churches Sue to Disaffiliate from Parent Body

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Suit was filed last month in a North Carolina state trial court by 38 United Methodist Churches in North Carolina which are seeking to disaf...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Disaffiliated Congregation Not Entitled To Church Property

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In Hebron Community Methodist Church v. Wisconsin Conference Board of Trustees of the United Methodist Church, Inc. ,  (WD WI, July 25, 2022...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Mississippi Supreme Court Rejects Claims By Pastor's Former Wife Against His Church On Unusual Facts

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In Woodard v. Miller ,  (MS Sup. Ct., Aug. 12, 2021), the Mississippi Supreme Court applied the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine in an unu...
Monday, February 10, 2020

"Neutral Principles" Approach Controls Issue of Joining Parent Church

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In Korean New Life Methodist Church v. Korean Methodist Church of the Americas , (CO App., Feb. 6, 2020), a Colorado state appellate court h...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Methodist Parent Body Sues SMU Over Attempted Split From Church Control

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Suit was filed last week in a Texas state trial court by the regional parent body of the Methodist Church against Southern Methodist Univers...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Break-Away Moves By Methodist Congregation Are Invalid

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In Laumalie Ma'oni'oni Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga v. Ma'afu ,  (UT App, March 21, 2019), a Utah state appellate court held th...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Suit Against Former Pastor For Financial Misdeeds Dismissed On Church Autonomy Grounds

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In  Trustees of the Alpine Methodist Episcopal Church v. New Jersey United Methodist Church ,  (NJ Super., Sept. 22, 2015), a New Jersey tri...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Backgrounder On Lawsuit By NJ Methodist Congregation Against United Methodist Church

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The Record today carries a long article about a lawsuit filed this summer by Alpine Community Church (in Alpine, New Jersey) against the Gr...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Delays In Sale of Historic Church Support Free Exercise, But Not RLUIPA, Claim

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In   California-Nevada Annual Conference of the Methodist Church v. City and County of San Francisco , (ND CA, Nov. 24, 2014), a California ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Dispute Over Suspension of Methodist Bishop Dismissed As Ecclesiastical Dispute

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In Clark v. Moore ,  (SC Sup. Ct., Aug. 20 2014), the South Carolina Supreme Court in an unpublished (i.e. non-precedential) decision dismis...