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25 Mar 2012, 12:20 pm
Then again, since the San Angelo involves the Dennis Canon while the Fort Worth case does not, The Court may keep them separate.)The Episcopal Church (USA) and its ersatz Diocese had each filed 50-page briefs in the Texas Supreme Court in response to Bishop Iker's opening brief. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 10:34 pm
 Why bring this up, if you are going to ignore what that decision actually said about the non-effect of the Dennis Canon in South Carolina? [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 9:17 am
Suffice it to say that ECUSA is going way out on a limb claiming the authority to come into court and change the terms of a private trust written in 2002, on the basis of the infamous Dennis Canon. [read post]
23 May 2020, 3:35 pm
It demolishes ECUSA's Dennis Canon, first by holding that a beneficiary like ECUSA cannot declare a trust in its favor in Texas on property that it does not own, and second by holding that even if the Dennis Canon could be said to create a trust in ECUSA's favor, the Canon does not, as Texas law specifies, make the trust "expressly irrevocable". [read post]
23 May 2020, 3:35 pm
It demolishes ECUSA's Dennis Canon, first by holding that a beneficiary like ECUSA cannot declare a trust in its favor in Texas on property that it does not own, and second by holding that even if the Dennis Canon could be said to create a trust in ECUSA's favor, the Canon does not, as Texas law specifies, make the trust "expressly irrevocable". [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 11:13 am
And starting twenty years later, we have been litigating the effects of his proposal, the infamous Dennis Canon, ever since.Flushed with some initial court decisions upholding its Dennis Canon (based on Justice Blackmun's unsolicited advice), ECUSA expanded its trust claims to the property of entire dioceses shortly after Bishop Schofield's Diocese of San Joaquin decided it could no longer remain part of the Episcopal Church (USA) in 2007. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 1:31 pm
It was Bishop Lawrence who accepted responsibility for giving each parish in his Diocese a quitclaim deed in compliance with the holding in All Saints Waccamaw that the Dennis Canon could on its own not create a trust in any property in South Carolina. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 9:25 am
Against Church of the Good Shepherd, Town and Country, Missouri (MO) (plaintiffs were Bishop Wayne Smith of the Diocese of Missouri and ECUSA [joined as a necessary party, due to its claimed interest under the Dennis Canon]; trial cou [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 1:20 pm
 TEC argues that the parishes' accession to the Dennis Canon created the trust. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 6:34 pm
 TEC argues that the parishes' accession to the Dennis Canon created the trust. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 6:47 am
Tricia Bishop has an article in the Baltimore Sun on how lawyers stereotype jurors in Maryland. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 8:09 am
The current General Convention at Indianapolis is fast becoming like Dennis the Menace at Christmas-time: "I want it all! [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 2:30 pm
Or else it could agree to rent the buildings from the diocesan corporation.Given neutral principles, and the specific ruling that Bishop Iker's group effectively revoked the Dennis Canon as to its parish properties, I do not see how the All Saints parish corporation can prove it has any outright claim to the real property held by the Diocese, unless and until it shows that it also followed Texas law in deciding who should control the corporation. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 1:44 pm
Jon Bruno, Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles v. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 10:24 am
This holding is based on the National Church's recognition of Charles vonRosenberg as its Bishop and the express trust imposed on Respondents' property by the Dennis Canon, as well as on state corporate law principles. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 10:35 am
This holding is based on the National Church's recognition of Charles vonRosenberg as its Bishop and the express trust imposed on Respondents' property by the Dennis Canon, as well as on state corporate law principles. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 12:40 pm by Eugene Volokh
As set forth in the Complaint, Belya was elected by the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR …—the executive arm of ROCOR—to the position of Bishop of Miami. [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 8:39 pm
Moreover, other church rules appear to give broad authority to bishops, such as Episcopal Church Canon II.6 which authorizes a parish to encumber parish property with consent of the bishop.After years of hearing courts say that dioceses and parishes never objected to the Dennis Canon before the current disputes arose, this opinion comes as a breath of fresh air, by turning the same point against ECUSA.Judge Reed goes on to find triable issues of fact with respect to the manner in… [read post]