CROWDER v. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

No. 86-8386.

828 F.2d 718 (1987)

Robert S. CROWDER, Julia J. Crowder and Henry C. Cooper, Plaintiffs-Appellants, H. Allan McCartney, Intervenor, v. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION and Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 28, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane F. Vehko, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James P. Guenther, Guenther & Jordan, Nashville, Tenn., Perry E. Pearce, King & Spalding, Griffin B. Bell, Richard A. Schneider, J. Warren Ott, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.


KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

Among the separation of church and state principles required by the establishment and free exercise clauses of the first amendment is that courts may not adjudicate ecclesiastical disputes. In this case, we examine the contours of this prohibition in deciding whether the district court erred in concluding that it could not, consistent with the first amendment, adjudicate a dispute concerning a parliamentary ruling at the 1985 Southern Baptist...

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