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AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH v. LUCIEN

No. 13-30617.

756 F.3d 788 (2014)

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Willard LUCIEN, Jr.; Roger Kennedy; Saint James Mission Church; George Gaton, Sr.; Thomas J. Hogan, Defendants-Appellants Saint James Mission Church, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Mississippi and Louisiana; Carlton Galmon, Sr.; James Martin; Otis Lewis, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson Dan Taylor, Sr., Esq. , Chief Counsel, J.K. Haynes Legal Defense Fund, Thibodaux, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Defendant-Appellee.

Thomas Joseph Hogan, Jr., Esq. , Hogan & Hogan, Hammond, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before SMITH, WIENER, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns a dispute over church property between a dissident local congregation ("Saint James") and the national church ("AME") with which it had been affiliated for many decades. Saint James filed an action in the City Court of Hammond, Louisiana, to evict several AME officeholders who had changed the church's locks and taken over the premises. AME countered by filing its own action in federal district court several weeks later,...

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