MOON v. FAMILY FEDERATION FOR WORLD PEACE

Nos. 20-CV-0714 & 20-CV-0715.

281 A.3d 46 (2022)

Hyun Jin MOON, et al., Appellants, v. The FAMILY FEDERATION FOR WORLD PEACE AND UNIFICATION INTERNATIONAL, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Carvin , with whom Jacob M. Roth , William G. Laxton, Jr. , David T. Raimer , Henry W. Asbill , and Veena Viswanatha were on the briefs, for appellant Hyun Jin Moon.

Derek L. Shaffer , with whom William A. Burck , John F. Bash , and JP Kernisan were on the briefs, for appellant UCI.

Francis D. Carter was on the briefs for appellants JinMan Kwak and Youngjun Kim.

Christopher B. Mead was on the briefs for appellant Michael Sommer.

Laura G. Ferguson , with whom James A. Bensfield , Alan I. Horowitz , Brian A. Hill , Michael J. Satin , and Dawn E. Murphy-Johnson were on the brief, for appellees The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, The Universal Peace Federation, and The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (Japan).

G. Edward Powell III , Steffen N. Johnson , and Paul N. Harold filed an amicus curiae brief for Professors Elizabeth A. Clarke, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Teresa Collett, Carl H. Esbeck, Richard W. Garnett, John D. Inazu, Douglas Laycock, Michael P. Moreland, Robert J. Pushaw, and David A. Skeel in support of appellants.

Eric C. Rassbach and William J. Haun filed an amicus curiae brief for The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in support of appellants.

Before Glickman and Deahl, Associate Judges, and Becker, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.


The Reverend Sun Myung Moon founded a religion known as the Unification Church in 1954. He was the religion's spiritual leader for nearly sixty years. In the final years of Rev. Moon's life, and through the present day, a religious schism has fractured the Church and its adherents...

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