church-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-964 Father John Gallagher v. Diocese of Palm Beach, Inc. Florida 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (2) church-doctrine civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech legal-immunity public-safety religious-speech standing Whether the priest is barred by the First Amendment from bringing a defamation action against a church
18-500 The First Presbyterian Church U. S. A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al. v. John Doe Oklahoma 2018-10-18 Denied Amici (3) affirmative-defense church-discipline church-doctrine church-government church-member-disputes consent consent-based first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine membership membership-dispute religious-autonomy Whether the religious autonomy doctrine derives from the First Amendment or is a consent-based doctrine applicable only to disputes between a church a…