Legal Opinion
Pleasant Glade Assembly of God v. Schubert
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 27, 2008No. 05-0916PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Medina
in which Justice HECHT, Justice O’NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, and Justice WILLETT joined.
This appeal concerns the tension between a church’s right to protection under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and a church member’s right to judicial redress under a claim for intentional tort. U.S. Const, amend. I; see also Tex. Const, art. I, § 6. The court of appeals generally affirmed the judgment in favor of the church member, concluding, among other things, that the church was judicially estopped to claim First Amendment protection. 174 S.W.3d 388, 405-07. We…
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