Wednesday, July 3, 2019

State Supreme Court denies Episcopal Church petition

From South Carolina-

The S.C. Supreme Court has denied a petition from The Episcopal Church and The Episcopal Church in South Carolina asking the court to enforce its decision about 29 properties currently held by a breakaway group.

The Supreme Court ruled in August 2017 that the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, which broke away from the national Episcopal Church in 2012, must return the properties, which include St. Philip’s Church on Church Street and St. Michael’s Church on Broad Street.

That ruling, which reversed a 2015 circuit court decision, was written collectively by all five justices, and some of their opinions were contradictory. The task of enforcement then fell to 1st Circuit Judge Edgar Dickson to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision.

The Episcopal Church argued in March that Dickson had “unduly delayed” acting and the Supreme Court needed to step in.

More here-

https://charlestonbusiness.com/news/real-estate-commercial/76689/ 

also here-

https://thetandd.com/news/local/s-c-supreme-court-says-st-circuit-court-will-resolve/article_ffa53448-83ad-5c7f-977a-0b551ca7b548.html

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