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NAPOLITANO v. ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH

Case No. 5D19-3112.

308 So.3d 274 (2020)

Jacqueline NAPOLITANO, Appellant, v. ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH and Thomas Walden, f/k/a Thomas Wanitsky, as Pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church, His Successors and Assigns in Office, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Opinion filed December 18, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gus R. Benitez , of Benitez Law Group, P.L., Orlando, for Appellant.

Caroline Landt , Kevin W. Shaughnessy and Erin M. Sales , of Baker Hostetler LLP, Orlando, for Appellees.

The church autonomy doctrine is a fundamental principle of federal constitutional law, rooted in both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and reflected in the Florida Constitution's own Religion Clauses. The doctrine recognizes a structural limitation on secular judicial power, the bounds of which...

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