denominational-authority

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-261 Jeff Schulz, et al. v. Presbytery of Seattle. et al. Washington 2020-09-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) church-autonomy church-property-disputes civil-procedure constitutional-law denominational-authority denominational-dispute first-amendment free-exercise property-ownership religious-freedom Does the First Amendment permit courts to apply a rule of absolute deference to assertions of ownership by a denomination in a dispute over property o…