JONES v. WOLF

No. 78-91.

443 U.S. 595 (1979)

JONES ET AL. v. WOLF ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided July 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Allen R. Snyder, Walter A. Smith, Jr., John B. Harris, Jr., T. Reese Watkins, and H. T. O'Neal, Jr.

Frank C. Jones argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Wallace Miller, Jr., W. Warren Plowden, Jr., and Edward S. Sell, Jr.*


MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves a dispute over the ownership of church property following a schism in a local church affiliated with a hierarchical church organization. The question for decision is whether civil courts, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, may resolve the dispute on the basis of "neutral principles of law," or whether they must...

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