Petition of the day
By Maureen Johnston
on Oct 4, 2014
The petition of the day is:
13-1520
Issue: (1) Whether the First Amendment or Jones v. Wolf requires courts to enforce express trusts recited in general-church governing documents (as some jurisdictions hold), or whether such a trust is enforceable only when it would otherwise comply with state law (as others hold); (2) whether retroactive application of the neutral-principles approach infringes free-exercise rights; and (3) whether the neutral-principles approach endorsed in Jones remains a constitutionally viable means of resolving church-property disputes, especially in light of Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: The Episcopal Church v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth
Recommended Citation:
Maureen Johnston,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Oct. 4, 2014, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/petition-of-the-day-695/