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26 Jul 2014, 6:57 am
On July 24, 2014 the Illinois Appellate Court for the Fourth District filed its opinion in the appeal taken by the Episcopal Church (USA) from a judgment entered against it by the Hon. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 8:34 am by The Federalist Society
The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, which concerns the resolution of church property disputes; and one or more same-sex marriage cases. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 11:00 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
” As one might also expect there have been accusations that the case has received special treatment because of the prominent public position of the accused drunk driver, who is the number two official in the Episcopal Church in Maryland. [read post]
23 May 2020, 3:35 pm
" (The Court also said the same thing in its earlier opinion in the 2013 case of Masterson v. [read post]
23 May 2020, 3:35 pm
" (The Court also said the same thing in its earlier opinion in the 2013 case of Masterson v. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 11:01 pm
Marker's contacts with Abbot Polan which concern the case of Father Parry and his subsequent reception into the Episcopal Church. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 2:09 pm
I shall not return here to comment; I am done with everything that involves the Episcopal Church. [read post]
26 Oct 2012, 2:34 pm
Is it now against the canons of the Episcopal Church (USA) for some bishops to disagree with others? [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 12:36 pm by David Ettinger
Episcopal Church Cases:  Did the Court of Appeal properly direct the entry of judgment on the pleadings in favor of the national Episcopal Church under Episcopal Church Cases (2009) 45 Cal.4th 467? [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
On August 25, Dylann Roof, one of this nation’s most reviled mass murderers, was back in the news when a federal appeals court upheld his conviction and death sentence for the 2015 murders of nine members of the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (“Mother Emanuel”) in Charleston, South Carolina, during a meeting of a Bible-study group.The court rejected Roof’s contention that he was not competent to stand trial and that because he was… [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 11:44 pm
But maybe that is what God has in store for the Episcopal Church. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 12:14 pm
The Episcopal Diocese of Quincy had already merged into the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago by the time the judgment was entered, so the only adverse party left before the court was the Episcopal Church (USA), represented by the Presiding Bishop's Chancellor, David Booth Beers, and by her Special Assistant for Litigation, Mary Kostel, as well as by local counsel Thomas B. [read post]
31 May 2013, 11:48 pm
Now, back in April of 2008, you signed a document entitled "The Bishop's Statement on the Polity of the Episcopal Church." [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 1:20 pm
One can only speculate as to the reasons for omission in some cases, while other cases seem clear: certainly hearing nothing but a whole series of "begats" is not very edifying.Because the Feast of the Epiphany occurs this week, churches are free to use Matthew's story of the visit of the three wise men in their Sunday readings. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 2:27 am
In this case a firefighter sued to recover for personal injuries suffered while fighting a fire at a Diocese church. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 1:15 pm by Steve Hall
  He shot and killed the storekeeper, Ralph Schell.Three years later a New Orleans priest, Joe Morris Doss (Rector of Grace Episcopal Church), was in charge of finding defense attorneys who would be willing to defend death row inmates on their appeals, pro bono. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 11:25 pm
You guessed it -- by reiterating every single one of the church cases in which ECUSA was found to be "hierarchical", although not one of the cases cited held that the national Church was superior and paramount to a member diocese. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 3:29 pm
Canon I.17.8 (in a section that deals with laity in the Church) provides:Any person accepting any office in this Church shall well and faithfully perform the duties of that office in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of this Church and of the Diocese in which the office is being exercised.In cases where vestries have voted to withdraw their parish from an Episcopal Diocese, ECUSA and its attorneys have always invoked this Canon, and argued that… [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 7:57 pm
" If the parishes had left the Church separately, Bishop Ohl might have a case. [read post]