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FROM THE HEART CHURCH MINISTRIES, INC. v. AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH

No. 3, Sept. Term, 2000.

803 A.2d 548 (2002)

370 Md. 152

FROM THE HEART CHURCH MINISTRIES, INC., et al. v. AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH, Mid-Atlantic II Episcopal District, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Lipson, (Darryl W. Jackson, Laura K. McNally, Jamellah L. Braddock, Stephen E. Jones, Erica Y. Williams of Arnold & Porter, on brief) Washington, DC, (Robert C. Park, Jr., Midgett S. Parker, Jr., Gerald W. Heller and James E. Gilbert of Linowes and Blocher LLP, on brief) Silver Spring, of counsel, (Steven E. Murray, Gloria J. Matthews, Norman D. Romney, Cecilia R. Jones and Malik O. Ellis of From The Heart Church Ministries, Inc., on brief) Temple Hills, for appellants.

James E. Ferguson, II (James E. Ferguson, III of Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A., on brief) Charlotte, NC, Thomas R. Kline and (Thomas E. Starnes of Thomas L. McCally and Tina Maiolo of Carr, Goodson and Warner, on brief) Rev. John L. Walker of Landover, for appellees.

Argued Before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and HARRELL, JJ.

BELL, C.J.

The issue presented in this case involves the ownership of church property after a local church, incorporated under the Maryland Religious Corporations Law, Md.Code (1957, 1999 Replacement Volume) Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Corporations and Associations Article,1 but affiliated with a religious denomination, terminates that affiliation. The...

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