Committee to Save St. Brigid's Inc. v. Egan

For the following reasons, it is my view that plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction should be granted and their complaint reinstated.

This appeal presents the question of whether the parishioners of an incorporated Roman Catholic church in lower Manhattan have any rights in a property dispute with Cardinal Egan, the Archbishop of New York. In this case, the alleged motive of the Cardinal and the Archdiocese for seeking to demolish St. Brigid, one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in the City, is to develop residential apartments on the site whereby the benefits from the property…