{"id":50968,"date":"2015-07-26T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/diocese_of_fort_worth_judgment_concludes_trial-court_phase\/"},"modified":"2015-07-26T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T08:08:07","slug":"diocese_of_fort_worth_judgment_concludes_trial-court_phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50968","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth: Judgment concludes trial-court phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Iker and the people of the diocese of Fort Worth win case.<br \/>Today the Hon. John P. Chupp signed his <a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/1fb9f2edeac2579af848e190a\/files\/finaljudgmentJuly2015.pdf\">Final Judgment<\/a> concerning the Motions for Partial Summary Judgment filed last December by the TEC-loyal plaintiffs and the defendant Diocese, Parishes, and Corporation, as well as Motions for Partial Summary Judgment concerning the TEC-loyal All Saints\u2019 Episcopal Church (Fort Worth) filed by these same parties on May 6. In doing so, the 141st District Court affirmed and combined its orders of March 2 and June 10 [see the entries below], which upheld the Diocese\u2019s right to dissociate from TEC and for the Corporation to retain its property \u201d\u201c including All Saints&#8217; parish property transferred from the Dallas Diocese \u201d\u201c and elected leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s judgment brings to a close a process started on Aug. 30, 2013, when the Supreme Court of Texas ordered that the case, initially decided using a \u201cdeference\u201d\u009d approach, return to the trial court and that the court reconsider the parties&#8217; claims, applying the Neutral Principles approach instead.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court\u2019s ruling now becomes appealable, and the TEC-affiliated plaintiffs have indicated their intention to ask the Second Court of Appeals for a review. In early August the court is expected to issue an order stating terms that will allow the TEC-affiliated congregation of All Saints\u2019, Fort Worth, to remain in the property it now occupies during the duration of the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>We give thanks for our many blessings, for God\u2019s work among us, and for the Hope of Salvation that is within us. We are thankful, too, for the patient endurance of all those who have prayed and labored for this day, especially our legal team, their associates, and their families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwepiscopal.org\/news\/2ndmsj.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Iker and the people of the diocese of Fort Worth win case.Today the Hon. John P. Chupp signed his Final Judgment concerning the Motions for Partial Summary Judgment filed last December by the TEC-loyal plaintiffs and the defendant Diocese,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50968\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,376,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}