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[Religious Intelligence] 13 Oct 2008--The California Supreme Court gave mixed signals on how it might rule on the Episcopal Church’s lawsuit against a Los Angeles parish that had quit the church for another province of the Anglican Communion.
In questions to the attorney for a parish that had quit the Diocese of Los Angeles for the Province of Uganda, the justices of the Court appeared to defer to church canons that place parish property in trust for the diocese and national church. However, in questions to the attorneys for the Diocese and national church, the justices indicated a desire to avoid entanglement in doctrinal disputes, and look solely to the underlying legal documents --- the deeds to the property --- that were at issue.
In oral arguments held on Oct 8 in Palm Desert, California, attorneys for St James Church in Newport Beach, and the Diocese of Los Angeles and the national church, presented their legal arguments to the court and responded to questions from the judges for over an hour.
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