Cross v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to assert jurisdiction over a dispute relating to “appellant’s status and employment as a minister of the church”
• dismissing defamation claim for lack of subject matter jurisdiction finding that claim would necessarily require court to inquire into church doctrine
• affirming the district court’s dismissal of plaintiffs claims of fraudulent, collusive, or arbitrary action, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and breach of contract
• affirming dismissal of complaint, including claims of breach of contract and defamation, for church’s forced retirmement of minister
• dismissing contract claim based on The Discipline, a collection of Methodist “rules, laws, and doctrinal statements”
• “The ‘neutral principles’ doctrine has never been extended to religious controversies in the areas of church government, order and discipline, nor should it be”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).