Dean v. Alford

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the issue of a pastor’s ouster is ecclesiastical in nature
• “[C]ourts do have jurisdiction to review matters involving civil, contract, or property rights even though they stem from a church controversy.”
• A [C]ourts do have jurisdiction to review matters involving civil, contract, or property rights even though they stem from a church controversy. @
• “[C]ourts do have jurisdiction to review matters involving civil, contract, or property rights even though they stem from church controversy.”
• in suit over pastor’s removal, only proper action was for trial court to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction based upon ecclesiastical abstention doctrine
• issue of a pastor’s ouster is ecclesiastical in nature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).