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CT Court to Hear Excommunication Case

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Court Orders Further Hearing In Suit By Church Member Challenging His Expulsion:  [T]he court is not deprived by the first amendment of jurisdiction to resolve whether the plaintiff was in fact expelled from the Church because this decision is not so intertwined with religious principles that it can make this determination without interfering with a legitimate claim to the free exercise of religion. Such an issue may be resolved in the present case by the application of neutral principles of law, here those of the secular laws of corporations.

 
 
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