church-leadership
2 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-634 | Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-12-03 | Pending | church-autonomy church-leadership first-amendment neutral-principles property-dispute religious-entanglement | Where necessary to resolve a church-property dispute, does the First Amendment prohibit courts from examining church-related facts to determine who le… | |
| 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… |