{"id":377912,"date":"2010-03-01T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8e903c6970b"},"modified":"2010-03-01T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:32:56","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-denies-appeal-from-la-crescenta-church-in-property-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377912","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal from La Crescenta church in property dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from an Anglican congregation that was evicted from its La Crescenta church in October after it lost a legal battle with the Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A majority of congregants of St. Luke\u2019s of the Mountains voted in 2006 to break away from the Episcopal Church. Both the national church and its Los Angeles diocese then sued to retain St. Luke\u2019s property, including its landmark stone church. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">California courts have ruled repeatedly against the breakaway parish, saying the property was held in trust for the diocese and the national denomination. In October, the state Supreme Court declined to hear the case and a Los Angeles\u00a0County Superior Court judge\u00a0then ordered the St. Luke&#8217;s congregation to leave and turn the property over to the diocese.\u00a0They did so, later moving to rented space in Glendale. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Leaders of the\u00a0ousted congregation and its attorneys have said they hoped\u00a0the U.S. Supreme Court would establish a uniform approach for state law\u00a0to follow in church property disputes. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Rebecca Trounson<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from an Anglican congregation that was evicted from its La Crescenta church in October after it lost a legal battle with the Episcopal Church. A majority of congregants of St. Luke\u2019s of the Mountains voted in 2006 to break away from the Episcopal Church. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}