GENERAL CONFERENCE SEVENTH DAY ADVENT. v. PEREZ

No. 98-2940CIV.

97 F.Supp.2d 1154 (2000)

GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS and General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, an Unincorporated Association, Plaintiffs, v. Raphael (Rafael) PEREZ, d/b/a Eternal Gospel SDA Church, Eternal Gospel Church of Laymen Seventh Day Adventists, Iglesia Adventista Del Septimo Dia Del Evangelio Eterno, Eternal Gospel Independent Church of Seventh Day Adventists, Eternal Gospel Church of Seventh Day Adventists, and Raphael Perez, Julio Ochoa, Andres Roman, Wilfredo Pinela, Antonio Prado, directors of unincorporated association currently known as the Eternal Gospel Church of Seventh Day Adventists, and Ministerio Adventista Del Septimo Dia Del Evangelio Eterno, Inc. (Eternal Gospel of the Seventh Day Adventist Ministry, Inc.), a dissolved Florida corporation, and Eternal Gospel Church of Laymen Seventh Day Adventists, a Washington state Corporation Sole, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida.

April 27, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Tew, Miami, FL, for plaintiffs.

Robert Pershes, Coral Springs, FL, for defendants.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

JAMES LAWRENCE KING, District Judge.

1. The Court has jurisdiction of this matter pursuant to 15 U.S.C. §§ 1121 and 1128 and pursuant to 38 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1337, 1338, 2201 and 2202.

2. Venue is proper in this district pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b).

3. Plaintiff, GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS is a corporation of the District of Columbia, having...

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