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IN RE EPISCOPAL CHURCH CASES

Nos. G036096, G036408, G036868.

61 Cal.Rptr.3d 845 (2007)

152 Cal.App.4th 808

EPISCOPAL CHURCH CASES.

Court of Appeal of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

June 25, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holme Roberts & Owen, John R. Shiner, Los Angeles, Brent E. Rychener; Horvitz & Levy, Frederic Cohen and Jeremy Rosen, Encino, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Goodwin Procter, David Booth Beers, Heather H. Anderson and Matthew J. Wilshire, for Intervener and Appellant.

Payne & Fears, Eric C. Sohlgren, Benjamin A. Nix and Daniel F. Lula, Irvine, for Defendants and Respondents.

Law Offices of George S. Burns, George S. Burns and John C. Ashby, Newport Beach, as Amici Curiae for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), The Synod of Southern California and Hawaii, and Presbytery of Hanmi on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

OPINION

SILLS, P. J.

I. SUMMARY

This appeal stems from a classic dispute over church property where a local congregation of a general church seeks to disaffiliate itself from that general church and take the local church property with it. (See generally Baker v. Ducker (1889) 79 Cal. 365, 21 P. 764 (Baker); N.L. Wheelock v. First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles (1897) 119 Cal. 477...

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