Chavis v. Rowe

How courts have described this case

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• noting a distinction between a court having to defer to highest church authority in a hierarchical church and enforcing decisions made by a governing body in a congregational church
• court could not adjudicate dispute over dismissal of deacon, where “resolution of ... claims would require an excursion into matters of church doctrine and polity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).