Legal Opinion
Blaudziunas v. Egan
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 13, 2011PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Jones, J.
The issue before this Court is whether section 5 of the Religious Corporations Law grants plaintiffs, former parishioners of a church incorporated as a religious corporation, the authority to challenge the board of trustees’ decision to demolish the church. We hold that it does not.
In 1909, Our Lady of Vilna Church—a Roman Catholic church established to serve a Lithuanian community in New York City—was incorporated by the then board of trustees, comprised of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York, the vicar general of the diocese, the rector of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Jones v. WolfSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- First Presbyterian Church v. United Presbyterian Church in United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
- Episcopal Diocese v. HarnishNew York Court of Appeals · 2008
- Blaudziunas v. EganAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
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