Decker Ex Rel. Decker v. Tschetter Hutterian Brethren, Inc.

(on reassignment).

INTRODUCTION

[¶ 1.] This case calls for a determination by this Court as to whether the underlying dispute between the parties is secular, and *359thus appropriate for us to adjudicate, or whether it is religious and thus beyond the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of South Dakota.

FACTS

[¶ 2.] Here, as in Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696, 699, 96 S.Ct. 2372, 2376, 49 L.Ed.2d 151, 157 (1976) a case involving disputes of a religious nature, “[a] proper perspective on the relationship of these parties and the nature of this dispute requires some…