{"id":57415,"date":"2017-02-14T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_s_haley_on_the_bishop_stacy_sauls_lawsuit-is_tec_getting_a_taste_of_thei\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:30:38","slug":"a_s_haley_on_the_bishop_stacy_sauls_lawsuit-is_tec_getting_a_taste_of_thei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57415","title":{"rendered":"A S Haley on the Bishop Stacy Sauls Lawsuit&#8211;Is TEC getting a Taste of Their Own Medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-litigious bunch at 815 Second Avenue, the New York headquarters of ECUSA, may be getting a taste of their own medicine. Or it may just be a case of litigation inculturated beyond the point of no return: the litigators at ECUSA have been sued by the Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls, one of their own (and a former lawyer in his own right), who worked there as Chief Operating Officer until the Presiding Bishop terminated him last April.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint, unusually filed in Alabama&#8217;s Mobile County Circuit Court (see remarks below), makes for an absorbing read (or maybe that&#8217;s just a lawyer talking): you may download it here. (A big tip o&#8217; the Rumpolean bowler to The Living Church, which first broke the story.) It names ECUSA and its corporate arm, the DFMS, as defendants, along with 30 unidentified &#8220;John Does&#8221;, who allegedly participated in some manner in the actions alleged<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/a-taste-of-their-own-medicine.html\">Read it all<\/a> and note the download link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-litigious bunch at 815 Second Avenue, the New York headquarters of ECUSA, may be getting a taste of their own medicine. Or it may just be a case of litigation inculturated beyond the point of no return: the litigators<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57415\">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":[36,48,39,40,73,175,149,66,168,631,597,114,632,184,177,373,441,372,376,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-analysis","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-katherine-jefferts-schori","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-michael-curry","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-presiding-bishop","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57415","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=57415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}