Higgins v. Maher

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• indicating that religious institutions do not have “broad immunity against being sued in civil courts”
• applying deference rule in suit brought by fired priest where alleged torts “occurred as inseparable parts of a process of divestiture of priestly authority”
• because complained-of torts, including defamation, “occurred as inseparable parts of a process of divestiture of priestly authority,” court refused to “sever them from the privileged aura of ... ecclesiastical exemption”

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