Second Protestant Reformed Church v. Blankespoor

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the question is whether the Protestant Reformed Churches of America “is congregational or presbyterian”
• holding that once a local church submits itself to the authority of a hierarchical denomination, provisions of the denomination’s constitution override inconsistent provisions in a local church’s articles of association

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).