DAVIS v. NEW ZION BAPTIST CHURCH

No. COA17-523.

811 S.E.2d 725 (2018)

Sarah B. DAVIS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. NEW ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed: March 6, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James, McElroy & Diehl, P.A., by J. Alexander Heroy , Edward T. Hinson, Jr. , and Preston O. Odom, III , for plaintiffs-appellees.

The McIntosh Law Firm, P.C., by Jesse C. Jones , for defendant-appellant.


This dispute between a church and some of its former members returns to us for a second time. Our review is constrained by the mandate in the previous decision of this Court, and the limits on judicial intervention in the governance of religious bodies established in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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