WINKLER BY WINKLER v. MARIST FATHERS

No. 152889.

901 N.W.2d 566 (2017)

500 Mich. 327

Bettina WINKLER, BY her next friends Helga Dahm WINKLER and Marvin Winkler, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARIST FATHERS OF DETROIT, INC., d/b/a Notre Dame Preparatory High School and Marist Academy, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 27, 2017.


OPINION

When presented with an ecclesiastical question, civil courts have long recognized the need, grounded in the First Amendment, to abstain from answering it themselves. This case invites us to consider the nature of this ecclesiastical abstention doctrine: namely, whether it is properly understood as a limitation on...

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