Landmark First Amendment Religion Litigation?

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In a message dated 1/26/2007 4:20:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mnewsom at law.howard.edu writes:
I will be the first to admit that I may have misread Jones v. Wolf, but “
neutral principles of law” is a rather capacious concept, and don’t forget 
Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila and the insistence there of the 
right of the Court to provide a remedy where there was “fraud, collusion, or 
arbitrariness” in the proceedings before the religious tribunal.
 
Jones v. Wolf sets forth one means by which a state may constitutionally 
chose to resolve property disputes..it does not stand ofr a general proposition 
applicable to the ministerial exception or other aspects of ecclesial 
life.....case law has specifically held that the "arbitrariness" referred to in Gonzalez 
 does not give a court the jurisdiction to interpret an ecclesiaastical 
organization's ecclesiastical process

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