Posted on 01/02/2008 7:47:19 PM PST by PAR35
A legal complaint pitting a Mississippi congregation that left the Presbyterian Church (USA) against the Presbytery of Mississippi has been returned to state court by a federal judge.
Grace Chapel Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Madison, Miss., is seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent Mississippi Presbytery from violating a final declaratory judgment that resolved a property ownership lawsuit that the church brought against the presbytery in March. Mississippi Presbytery moved the church's request to U.S. District Court within 30 days of its Aug. 29 filing, saying there was a federal question about the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
But in his ruling Dec. 21, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III said there was no such question. "The only relief sought in the TRO motion is the enforcement of the final judgment and the preservation of the property rights delineated therein," he wrote.
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