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BELL v. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.)

No. 96-1297.

126 F.3d 328 (1997)

James M. BELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.); Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church; Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church; American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., Defendants-Appellees, and Elenora Giddings Ivory; Jane Hull Harvey; Anna Rhee; Jay Lintner; Robert Tiller; Lionel Derenoncourt; Otis Turner; Vernon Broyles, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James Wright Crabtree, Smathers & Thompson, Charlotte, NC, for Appellant. Alissa Aaronson Horvitz, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Katharine B. Houlihan, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellees.

Before HALL and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and DUFFY, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge K.K. HALL and Judge DUFFY joined.

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

OPINION

The Reverend James M. Bell, an ordained minister, served as executive director of Interfaith Impact, a multi-denominational outreach program. In June 1995, his employment was terminated as part of Interfaith Impact's "complete reduction in force." Interfaith Impact's board of directors advised Bell that...

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