Westbrook v. Penley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• involving parishioner's suit against pastor for \shunning\ her from community for engaging in \biblically inappropriate relationship\
• involving parishioner’s suit against pastor for “shunning” her from community for engaging in “biblically inappropriate relationship”
• “[I]f inter pretation of the instruments of ownership would require the court’s resolution of a religious controversy, the court must defer to ecclesiastical resolution of the doctrinal issue.”
• “[I]f interpretation of the instruments of ownership would require the court’s resolution of a religious controversy, the court must defer to ecclesiastical resolution of the doctrinal issue.”
• alleged defamatory statements could not be \isolated from the church-disciplinary process\
• alleged defamatory statements could not be “isolated from the church-disciplinary process”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).