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KLIEBENSTEIN v. IA CONF. OF UN. MET. CHURCH

No. 02-0011.

663 N.W.2d 404 (2003)

Jane KLIEBENSTEIN and Glen Kliebenstein, Appellants, v. IOWA CONFERENCE OF the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, the United Methodist Church of Shell Rock, Iowa, Jerrold W. Swinton, Rick Kromminga, Karen Wahl, Kay J. Lahr and Karen L. Peterson, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 11, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Verhulst of Gallagher, Langlas & Gallagher, P.C., Waterloo, for appellants.

L.R. Voigts and Jodi L. Ahlman of Nyemaster, Goode, Voigts, West, Hansell & O'Brien, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

NEUMAN, Justice.

This appeal involves a church-related controversy, an area of discord traditionally considered "off limits" for civil courts. Plaintiff, Jane Kliebenstein, claims she can overcome that jurisdictional hurdle here because church officials' allegedly defamatory statements about her carried secular overtones and were published to non-members of the church. We agree that she has an actionable, albeit limited, claim that cannot be resolved by way of summary...

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