neutral-principles-of-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-1174 Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. North Carolina 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c…
20-534 All Saints' Episcopal Church (Fort Worth) v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. Texas 2020-10-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) church-property-dispute church-property-disputes ecclesiastical-question establishment-clause express-trust-provision free-exercise free-exercise-clause jones-v-wolf neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law Whether the Texas Supreme Court's decision awarding petitioner's sanctuary and rectory to a dissident faction in contravention of the will of petition…
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 Does the First Amendment require courts to consider whether a judicial inquiry intrudes coercively into church governance even when there is no religi…