denominational-dispute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Whether the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause precludes state courts from resolving internal church … | |
| 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… |