Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of Christ Church in Savannah v. Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the First Amendment precludes a court from “questioning the validity of the process by which the church legislates”
• recognizing that cases from foreign jurisdictions are not binding, and declining to adopt such cases as persuasive authority where they are factually distinguishable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).