Legal Opinion
In re Multi-Circuit Episcopal Church Property Litigation
Fairfax County Circuit Court
Decided January 10, 2012No. Case Nos. (Civil) CL 2007-248724, CL 2006-15793, CL 2006-15792, CL 2007-556, CL 2007-1625, CL 2007-1235, CL 2007-1236, CL 2007-1237, CL 2007-1238, CL 2007-5249, CL 2007-5250, CL 2007-5364, CL 2007-5686, CL 2007-5685, CL 2007-5683, CL 2007-5682, CL 2007-5684, CL 2007-5902, and CL 2007-5903PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
By Judge Randy I. Bellows
I. Introduction
On June 10, 2010, the Virginia Supreme Court remanded Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia v. Truro Church, 280 Va. 6 (2010), to the Circuit Court, as follows:
Accordingly, we hold that the circuit court erred in ruling that the CANA Congregations’ petitions were properly before the court under Code § 57-9(A).
By granting the CANA Congregations’ Code § 57-9(A) petitions, the circuit court ruled that this “obviate[d] the need to address the merits of the Declaratory Judgment Actions filed by the Episcopal Church and the Diocese and thus…
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