ecclesiastical-deference
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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 | The First Amendment limits civil courts' authority to resolve disputes within a church. For more than a century, this Court respected those limits by … |