Burgess v. Rock Creek Baptist Church

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to review “the fairness or correctness of the defendants’ decision to terminate the plaintiffs membership”
• stating that courts can adjudicate church disputes “under narrow circumstances”
• following Hutchison and refusing to apply neutral principles to membership dispute
• following Hutchison and refusing to apply neutral principles to membership dispute
• “an indispensable part of any church is the collection of individuals who have joined together in worship and constitute the church’s membership”
• \[T]his Court must not interfere with the fundamental ecclesiastical concern of determining who is and who is not [a] Church member.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).