Legal Opinion
Church Of God In Christ, Inc. v. L. M. Haley Ministries, Inc.
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided September 21, 2017No. W2015-00509-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 25 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · ClarkCornelia A. Clark, J.
in which Jeffrey S. Bivins, C.J., Sharon G. Lee, and Roger-A. Page, JJ., joined. Holly Kirby, J., filed a concurring opinion.
We grantéd this appeal to determine whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court’s decision dismissing this lawsuit involving a dispute over the right to use and control church property for lack of subject matter jurisdiction based on the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. This doctrine derives from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and prohibits civil courts from resolving church disputes on the basis of .religious doctrine…
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