Showing posts with label Church property. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church property. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Leads to Dismissal of Church Property Dispute

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In Atlantic Korean American Presbytery v. Shalom Presbyterian Church of Washington, Inc. ,  (VA App., March 11, 2025), a Virginia state appe...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Indiana Supreme Court Broadly Interprets Churches' Partial Tort Immunity

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In Calvary Temple Church of Evansville, Inc. v. Kirsch ,  (IN Sup. Ct., Feb. 11, 2025), the Indiana Supreme Court gave a broad interpretatio...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Church's Claims Against Parent Body Can Largely Be Decided on Neutral Principles of Secular Law

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 In Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church of Wilmington v. North Carolina Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, of the United Methodist Chur...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Denial of Historic Preservation Grants to Churches Violates 1st Amendment

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In The Mendham Methodist Church v. Morris County, New Jersey ,  (D NJ, Nov. 27, 2024), a New Jersey federal district court held that Rule 5....
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Local Congregation Cannot Sue Parent in Property Dispute After All Its Members Were Excommunicated

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Church of God of Crandon v. Church of God ,  (WI App., Oct. 15, 2024), involved a dispute between a local congregation-- the Crandon Church-...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

State RFRA Bars Taxpayer Suit Challenging Church's Property Tax Exemption

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 In In re Calvary Chapel Iowa ,  (IA Adm. Hearings Div., Sept. 17, 2024), an Iowa Administrative Law Judge held that the state's Religio...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court Refuses to Order United Methodist Conference to Allow Church Disaffiliations

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In Aldersgate United Methodist Church of Montgomery v. Alabama- West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, Inc. ,  (AL Sup. Ct....
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...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Michigan Passes Institutional Desecration Ban

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 Last week, the Michigan legislature gave final passage to HB 4476 ( full text ) ( legislative history ) which creates the crime of "in...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

NY Court Rules That Parent Body Is Entitled to Possession of Hare Krishna Temple

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Kelley v. Gupta , (Sup.Ct. Nassau Cty. NY, Oct. 25, 2023), involves a dispute between two factions of the Hare Krishna movement over control...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Church Autonomy Bars Court Adjudicating Dispute Over Withdrawal from Parent Body

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 In Deutsche Evangelisch Lutherische Zions Gemeinde v. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America , (Kings Cty NY Sup. Ct., Aug. 16, 2023), a Ne...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

8th Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of Federal Ban on Damaging Religious Real Property

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In United States v. Hari , (8th Cir., May 10, 2023), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality under the Commerce C...
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...
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...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

Church's Attempt To Separate From Parent To Avoid Receivership Was Fraudulent

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In Pentecostal Church of God v. City of Refuge Ministries Toledo Ohio , (OH Com. Pl., Aug. 15, 2022), an Ohio state trial court held that th...
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...
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...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Kentucky Governor Signs Bill Protecting Houses Of Worship During Emergencies

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Yesterday, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed into law House Bill 43 ( full text ) that prohibits the governor, during a state of emerge...