· 12/24/2015
FAMILY FEDERATION FOR WORLD PEACE AND UNIFICATION INTERNATIONAL v. HYUN JIN MOON
Citations
- 129 A.3d 234
- 2015 D.C. App. LEXIS 587
- 2015 WL 9433515
How courts have described this case
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- referring to “challenges based on lack of [special interest] standing and failure to state a cause of action pursuant to Super. Ct. Civ. R. 12(b)(6)”
- finding co- settlors and corporate successors-in-interest may assert the settlor’s right to enforce the terms of charitable trust
- explaining that religious abstention issue required “further evidentiary presentation”
- “[W]e have recognized the applicability of the rules relating to charitable trusts to [charitable] corporations.”
- “This is not a suit directly against a church, synagogue, or mosque or their immediate leadership. On the contrary, the defendant entity at issue here is a taxable, albeit nonprofit, corporation.”
- “Neutral principles of law can govern the establishment of an agency relationship, and it may be that an examination of the structure and long-standing- practices of the Church will provide an answer to the actual existence of such a relationship.”
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Judges: Glickman, Blackburne-Rigsby, Steadman
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