MacIejewski v. Breitenbeck

Plaintiffs, five parishioners of St. Isidore’s Roman Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, filed a complaint in Kent Circuit Court containing four counts. In count one they seek to restrain their bishop, the Most Reverend Joseph M. Breitenbeck, from employing their parish priest, Rever end Stephen E. Vesbit, to further serve as pastor of St. Isidore’s.

In counts two, three, and four, they seek to recover damages from Reverend Vesbit for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Circuit Judge George V. Boucher granted defendants’ motion for summary disposition as to count one on the basis that…