Duncan v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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• evaluating a defamation claim under neutral principles of law when a pastor alleged that his former church sent false and misleading letters throughout the local community
• evaluating a defamation claim under neutral principles of law when a pastor alleged that his former church sent false and misleading letters throughout the local community
• canvassing federal first amendment cases and foreign as well as Illinois case law before holding that court could address plaintiff’s tort claims so long as they could be “resolved without inquiry into religious principles and doctrine”
• May 9, 2000, letter included April 23, 2000, letter and May 5, 2000, letter as enclosures
• May 9, 2000, letter included April 23, 2000, letter and May 5, 2000, letter as enclosures
• “Even if the reasoning behind defendants’ decision to revoke the [plaintiffs] ordination ... is not reviewable because it is ‘steeped in matters of theological import,’ we may review defendants’ conduct in carrying out the revocation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).