Legal Opinion
Roberts-Douglas v. Meares
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 3, 1992No. 89-CV-55, 89-CV-354PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
I
THE CONTROVERSY
This case involves allegations by the plaintiffs, nine former parishioners of the Evangel Temple, formerly located in northeast Washington, of fraudulent and coercive conduct on the part of leaders of the church in connection with fund-raising for a proposed new facility. In their complaint, as amended, the plaintiffs claimed that the defendants, who include the Temple, its bishop (John L. Meares), and two of Bishop Meares’ sons, fraudulently induced them to contribute large sums of money to the defendants’ building funds by misrepresenting the…
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