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Lower Court Judge in South Carolina Issues Ruling Contrary to SC Supreme Court

June 19, 2020 3 Comments

From the Diocese of South Carolina:

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson, tasked in November 2017 by the South Carolina Supreme Court (SCSC) with a remittitur to enforce the final judgment of the SCSC which ruled in August 2017 that the diocesan property and 29 parishes should be returned to the parties affiliated with The Episcopal Church, issued an Order earlier today that seems to be contrary to that decision. In his Order, he ruled that the properties […]

Breaking: US Supreme Court declines to hear breakaway’s appeal in South Carolina case

June 11, 2018 3 Comments

The US Supreme Court today denied a petition from a breakaway group, letting stand the decision of the South Carolina Supreme Court to return control of the Diocese of South Carolina and 28 church properties to The Episcopal Church and its recognized diocese, The Episcopal Church in South Carolina.

Diocese asks courts to return property, identity

May 10, 2018 32 Comments

The Episcopal Church in South Carolina has petitioned the courts to execute the state Supreme Court’s decision and return church properties to the Episcopal Church and to return the diocese’s name and seal.

Response filed in U.S. Supreme Court by The Episcopal Church in South Carolina

May 7, 2018 No Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for certioriai each year, and hears only a small fraction of them. The nine justices regularly hold conferences to determine which cases merit further review, and a decision on the South Carolina petition is expected to come before the end of June. If the court chooses not to grant certiorari, no further appeals are possible.

News from the courts in South Carolina

April 17, 2018 9 Comments

The Episcopal Church in South Carolina reports on the latest developments in court cases that have been ongoing since the diocese was split by the separation of Bishop Mark Lawrence and fifty-four local parishes from the Episcopal Church in 2012.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Gergel has granted motions to expand a federal false-advertising and trademark infringement lawsuit against the bishop of a group that left The Episcopal Church, adding as defendants the breakaway organization and parishes that followed […]

Breakaway Diocese of South Carolina petitions US Supreme Court

February 13, 2018 1 Comment

According to the state Supreme Court ruling, the disassociated Diocese of South Carolina would have to relinquish 29 church buildings. But that diocese’s officials soon indicated they would petition the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to overturn the state court decision, and on Friday, Feb. 9, that’s just what they did.

South Carolina Supreme Court rules property belongs to The Episcopal Church

August 2, 2017 73 Comments

In a highly anticipated ruling, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that 29 local parishes that left The Episcopal Church cannot take their property with them, a decision that could set the stage for a massive exchange of historic church properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Beginning today, South Carolina Supreme Court to hear appeal in diocese split

September 23, 2015 31 Comments

The Charlotte Observer reports that arguments over the conservative Diocese of South Carolina’s 2012 split from the Episcopal Church will continue in the state Supreme Court this week following an appeal from The Episcopal Church and 40 parishes in South Carolina that remained with TEC, The Episcopal Church in South Carolina. After the diocese sued “to protect its identity, the symbols it uses such as the diocesan seal and $500 million in church property,”

Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein, who presided at […]

Editorial: Questions for the Bishop-Elect

May 22, 2015 49 Comments

From time to time we will publish letters from our readers responding to articles posted at the Cafe. In today’s letter John Chilton responds to our story on the episcopal election in the diocese of Dallas with an eye on previous elections in “conservative” dioceses with some thoughtful questions for those needing to give consent.

Faithful South Carolina diocese’s appeal taken by state supreme court

April 16, 2015 17 Comments

The South Carolina Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear the appeal of the Episcopal Diocese in South Carolina, the faithful diocese. This is the second heartening piece of news for the diocese. Two weeks ago the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a case to the U.S. District Court in Charleston; the district judge had refused to hear that case brought by the faithful diocese until the state case ran its course.

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