{"id":22670,"date":"2010-11-02T00:04:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/diocese_of_fort_worth_response_to_all_saints_suit_asks_for_sanctions\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T00:04:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:04:31","slug":"diocese_of_fort_worth_response_to_all_saints_suit_asks_for_sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22670","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Fort Worth Response to All Saints\u2019 suit asks for sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwepiscopal.org\/news\/answertoASFWsuit.html\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing \u201cmalicious prosecution and abuse of process\u201d\u009d in bringing a suit which has \u201cno factual or legal foundation,\u201d\u009d a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwepiscopal.org\/downloads\/+IkerOrigAnswerAllSaints.pdf\">response<\/a> filed Friday, Oct. 29, asks for sanctions on the lawyers who crafted litigation against Bishop Jack Iker on behalf of All Saints\u2019 Episcopal Church on Crestline Road in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Iker\u2019s response denies the charges of harm to the Crestline Road congregation and notes that federal law provides \u201ca remedy against counsel who unreasonably and vexatiously multiply the proceedings in a case.\u201d\u009d The Oct. 15 complaint, filed in federal court, was intended to harass the Bishop and multiply the cost of litigation, the response explains. In addition, the federal suit multiplies the proceedings on an issue already under consideration in a Texas state court. The plaintiff and counsel are well aware of that suit, which covers the question of who owns certain church properties, including intellectual assets such as trademarks. That suit already represents the Crestline congregation\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Iker\u2019s response asks the federal court to deny relief to the plaintiff church and to direct the plaintiff\u2019s counsel to repay the Bishop\u2019s legal costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Citing \u201cmalicious prosecution and abuse of process\u201d\u009d in bringing a suit which has \u201cno factual or legal foundation,\u201d\u009d a response filed Friday, Oct. 29, asks for sanctions on the lawyers who crafted litigation against Bishop Jack Iker on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22670\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,74,401,66,114,373,372,376,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-cono-sur-formerly-southern-cone","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-presiding-bishop","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}