Ann Wheeler v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• local church established as an unincorporated subdivision of the Archdiocese of Boston, which itself is an ecclesiastical entity of the Roman Catholic Church, an episcopal church hierarchical in nature
• “Under canon law, members of the Roman Catholic church, both lay and clerical, who are aggrieved by any action of their Ordinary (the Archbishop
• First Amendment permits hierarchical religious organizations to establish their own rules for internal government
• “determination of a church’s structure is a question of fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).