ecclesiastical-abstention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-530 Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. California 2024-11-12 Denied Amici (13) board-membership church-state-separation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-institution religious-qualifications Bethesda University is a Pentecostal institution that requires its Board members to share its religious faith and to act consistently with its Penteco…
23-1030 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-03-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput…
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 Question not identified.
23-732 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2024-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-courts civil-procedure constitutional-law ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-freedom standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Amendment doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention operates to deprive civil courts of subject-matter jurisdiction.
23A293 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-organizations secular-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction watson-v-jones Whether the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention—a First Amendment doctrine initially outlined by this Court in Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 6…
20-1415 Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon v. Hak Ja Han Moon, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied civil-procedure collusion court-jurisdiction ecclesiastical-abstention fraud fraud-exception legal-doctrine religious-organization religious-organizations tortious-conduct Whether there is an exception to this Court's ecclesiastical abstention doctrine that allows courts to resolve disputes over whether control of a reli…
20-9 Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, et al. v. Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived civil-rights corporate-law de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment ministerial-exception standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1. May a Court of Appeals on de novo review of summary judgment refuse to decide a claim predicated on a failure of two non-religious corporations, wi…
18A1261 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete church-autonomy civil-courts ecclesiastical-abstention fiduciary-duties first-amendment religious-doctrine Question not identified.
18-1441 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. Kentucky 2019-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, the First Amendment requires state courts, despite their own procedures, to dismiss suits immediately upon a show…
18-636 The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church Virginia 2018-11-16 Dismissed church-property civil-procedure constitutional-competence ecclesiastical-abstention establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise merger-analysis neutral-principles religious-freedom religious-organizations subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court entered its Final Order disposing, inter alia, of Church Property, predicated upon a judicial determination that Grace Presbyterian wa…