church-governance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1030 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-03-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput…
23A639 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete church-governance denominational-dispute ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment hierarchical-church property-control Question not identified.
19-1253 Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson Pennsylvania 2020-04-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-autonomy church-governance church-leadership civil-magistrate civil-rights first-amendment free-speech leadership-selection neutral-principles religious-freedom Whether a church's First Amendment rights are violated when, under the guise of "neutral principles," a civil magistrate selects the leadership of the…
19-158 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference This case presents two important questions concerning the First Amendment's protection of churches against the power of the state. A disaffected facti…
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California 2019-07-05 Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of "religious institution" in the two prong test for "ministerial exception" in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sch.…