Legal Opinion
ABUNE SAMUEL v. NEGA LAKEW
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 11, 2015No. 13-CV-1472PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Associate Judge:
In December 2012, appellant Abune Samuel, identifying himself as the “duly constituted and appointed Archbishop of the Washington DC area diocese of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches in the Diasporaf,]” filed a Complaint against appellees Nega Lakew and Tes-faye Nega — identified in the Complaint as, respectively, the President of the Board of Directors of Kedus Gabriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (“Kedus Gabriel”) and head of the Kedus Gabriel Parish Administrative Council. The Complaint announced that the case “involves control over real property…
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