Ervin v. Lilydale Progressive Missionary Baptist Church

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the First Amendment does not prohibit court intervention when a congregational church “fails to follow the procedures it has, itself, enacted”
• The plaintiff, a reverend, sought an injunction to stop his employer, the defendant church, from firing him without using the procedure established by the church’s bylaws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).