{"id":48543,"date":"2015-02-24T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_dorchster_county_judge_diane_goodstein_reaffirms_ruling_agai\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:00:16","slug":"south_carolina_dorchster_county_judge_diane_goodstein_reaffirms_ruling_agai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48543","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Dorchester County Judge Diane Goodstein Reaffirms Ruling Against TEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An updated list (as of March 1) of all the recent news stories about the South Carolina litigation may be <b><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/58778\" title=\"found here\">found here<\/a>.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>For the second time in less than a month, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane S. Goodstein rejected arguments by The Episcopal Church and its subsidiary, The Episcopal Church in South Carolina, that the two groups are rightful owners of the churches, symbols and other assets of the Diocese of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>In her Order denying the motion for reconsideration she stated, \u201cLarge portions of the motion are simply the proposed orders previously submitted to the Court or reiterations of the Defendants\u2019 positions at trial.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The motion had also argued that because the Diocese had argued legal positions in the All Saints case contrary to those now being presented, that Judicial Estoppel should apply.  In response, Judge Goodstein sharply noted&#8230; \u201cThe court finds that the Judicial Estoppel argument is without merit&#8230;.If the Defendants\u2019 argument in the instant action was correct, no party previously adjudicated to be wrong would be able to correct their conduct in compliance with a court\u2019s holding.  Such a result would be contrary to all sense of justice and order&#8230;  With regards all other matters presented in Defendants\u2019 Motion for Reconsideration, they are hereby denied.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diosc.com\/sys\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=643:judge-reaffirms-ruling-against-tec&#038;catid=1:latest-news&#038;Itemid=75\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An updated list (as of March 1) of all the recent news stories about the South Carolina litigation may be found here. For the second time in less than a month, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane S. Goodstein rejected<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48543\">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":[36,48,39,54,66,168,114,184,441,376,646,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48543","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=48543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}