Doe v. Pontifical College Josephinum

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 1172

Syllabus

Trial court did not err by granting motion to dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction pursuant to the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. The claims asserted in appellant's complaint would have required the trial court to examine the disciplinary process leading to appellant's expulsion from the seminary, which was part of a hierarchical religious organization, and would have involved matters of ecclesiastical disciplinary decisions. The appellant's claim that trial court erred by denying his motion to proceed under a pseudonym was rendered moot by the lack of subject-matter jurisdiction over his claims.