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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-536 The Episcopal Church, et al. v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. Texas 2020-10-22 Denied Relisted (2) church-property church-property-disputes constitutional-law ecclesiastical-deference express-trusts first-amendment free-exercise neutral-principles polity religious-freedom Whether the First Amendment requires courts to enforce express trusts in church governing documents or whether state law may render such trusts unenfo…