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KOREAN NEW LIFE METHOD. v. KOREAN METHOD.

Court of Appeals No. 18CA1149.

474 P.3d 143 (2020)

2020 COA 20

KOREAN NEW LIFE METHODIST CHURCH, a Colorado non-profit corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KOREAN METHODIST CHURCH OF THE AMERICAS, a California non-profit corporation, and Jin Hi Cha, Defendants-Appellants.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

Announced February 6, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mulliken Weiner Berg & Jolivet P.C., Murray I. Weiner , Hilary A. Roland , Colorado Springs, Colorado; Weeks & Luchetta, LLP, Jeffrey L. Weeks , Colorado Springs, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Nussbaum Speir PLLC, Ian Speir , Colorado Springs, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellants.

¶ 1 The First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution preclude civil courts from resolving religious disputes involving religious law and decisions of ecclesiastical tribunals, including disputes involving church governance (polity approach). See Serbian E. Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich,

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