FROM HEART CHURCH MINISTRIES, INC. v. PHILADELPHIA-BALTIMORE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Nos. 2546, Sept. Term, 2006, 2547, Sept. Term, 2006.

964 A.2d 215 (2009)

184 Md. App. 11

FROM THE HEART CHURCH MINISTRIES, INC., et al. v. PHILADELPHIA-BALTIMORE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip W. Horton (Amy L. McGinnis, Arnold & Porter, LLP of Washington, D.C. and Clarissa W. Cook, Gloria J. Harris, From the Heart Church Ministries, Inc of Temple Hills, on the brief), for appellant.

Thomas L. McCally (Tina L. Maiolo, Carr Maloney, PC on the brief) and Thomas E. Starnes (Andrews Kurth LLP on the brief) Washington, DC (John L. Walker of Landover, and James E. Ferguson, II, Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter PA of Charlotte, NC) on the brief, for appellee.

Argued before MEREDITH, WOODWARD and JAMES A. KENNEY, III, (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


WOODWARD, J.

This appeal arises from a dispute involving a local church, From the Heart Church Ministries, Inc. ("From the Heart"), and its founding pastor, Pastor John A. Cherry, on one side, and its former denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ("A.M.E.Zion"), on the other side, over the ownership of real and personal property upon From the Heart's withdrawal from A.M.E. Zion. This case was previously before the Court of Appeals in From the...

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