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17 Jul 2014, 7:34 am
He also reviewed later documents that purported to withdraw the diocese from The Episcopal Church. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 10:34 pm
Lawrence knows full well that under Episcopal Church law, that he swore to uphold in 2008, all local properties are held in trust for the Episcopal Church and her diocese. [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 12:24 pm
After a flurry of last-minute emergency motions and appeals, the so-called "Episcopal Church in South Carolina" rump group ("ECSC") has run out of maneuvers to delay the start of the scheduled trial next week before Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein.Well -- they did manage to delay the start by one day. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 4:05 am
African Methodist Episcopal Church v. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 8:46 am
In its latest bid to delay the start of the trial scheduled for July 7, the rump group that calls itself "the Episcopal Church in South Carolina" (ECSC) has filed a Notice of Appeal from an interlocutory order of the trial court that denied its "motion to reconsider" for a fourth time a ruling that refused to allow it to add additional individual parties to the case. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 12:23 pm
Justice White then asked her (echoing Judge Ortbal's ruling) if it was not the case that there was no highest body in the Episcopal Church which had already ruled on whether a diocese may leave, so that there was no decision by the Church on that issue to which the civil courts would have to defer. [read post]
22 May 2014, 4:02 pm
What is the legal definition of a “hierarchical church” the trial court is using for purposes of giving deference to the internal decisions of the Episcopal Church in this case? [read post]
11 May 2014, 10:08 am
That service, held in Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, is considered the first observance of what we call Mother’s Day today. [read post]
8 May 2014, 6:31 am
The litigation agenda of the Episcopal Church (USA) continues to garner victories in California (where a single federal district court was allowed to overturn a constitutional initiative passed by a clear majority of voters). [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 10:47 am
In the parish cases, there has always been language in the parish articles or bylaws which binds them to follow the Church's canons without reservation. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 11:10 pm
The Church is "rising"? [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 12:24 pm
Also, according to the press release from the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, "Judge Diane S. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 9:58 pm
In 2009, in its decision in The Episcopal Church Cases, the California Supreme Court read section 9142 (c) to empower ECUSA to impose a trust on all property of every Episcopal Church parish in California simply by the enactment of its Dennis Canon -- three years before the statute enabling the Canon was adopted.Ever since, ECUSA has used the Dennis Canon to win many suits against individual parishes in California who took steps to leave their diocese… [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 6:48 am
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church begged to differ. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 4:48 pm
James parish, in Newport Beach, following the interlocutory decision by the California Supreme Court in The Episcopal Church Cases -- which returned those cases for trial, just as in Texas.)Moreover, we have seen SCOTUS now deny review of no less than three already final decisions in recent church property cases: from the courts in Connecticut, Georgia and Virginia. [read post]
22 Mar 2014, 2:24 pm
The Court of Appeals, citing just one case, agreed and ordered the matter back to Judge Goodstein's court for trial, which is scheduled to go forward this July:Respondents [Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina and its member parishes] have filed a motion to dismiss this appeal, alleging the underlying order is not immediately appealable. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 8:11 am
The Episcopal Church, et al.; and No. 11-0332, Masterson v. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 2:03 pm
These churches have quarreled with their mainline Christian counterparts, specifically the American Episcopal, United Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches. [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 8:00 am
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 13-449, as the Court denied cert. without comment in this long-running dispute between the national Episcopal Church and a breakaway former congregation. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 5:50 am
Other coverage of yesterday’s orders focused on cases in which the Court denied review: writing for Education Week, Mark Walsh reported on the denial of a petition filed by a Pennsylvania school district, which was seeking review of a lower court’s decision allowing students to wear breast-cancer awareness bracelets bearing the message “I [heart] Boobies,” while Robert Barnes of The Washington Post covers the Court’s decision not to weigh in on a… [read post]
