Thammawaro v. Cambodian Buddhist Society, Inc.

ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.

At issue is whether The Cambodian Buddhist Society, Inc. (the Buddhist Society) was entitled to a writ of possession giving it the right to remove Sathian Thammawaro, a Buddhist monk, from property owned and used by the Buddhist Society as a Buddhist temple. Thammawaro does not dispute that the Buddhist Society holds legal title to the property at issue, but claims that the trial court erred by granting the Society a writ of possession to remove him because doing so violated the constitutional principle of separation of church and state as embodied in the U. S.…