Judicial Council

Most Recent Decisions

#	Title	Date	Type
250	Petition of the North Carolina Annual Conference for a Ruling Concerning the Legality of Filing Liens Against a Minister's Pension Annuity to Cover Unpaid Balances in Apportionments for the Conference Pension Fund and of Levying Interest Upon Such Unpaid Balances	October 27, 1967	Decision
254	The Right of a Bishop to Appoint a Minister in the Effective Relationship with an Annual Conference to the District Superintendency or a Pastorate in Another Annual Conference Also under His Jurisdiction without Transferring the Minister from the First to the Second Annual Conference	October 27, 1967	Decision
248	Ruling of Bishop Jose L. Valencia Concerning the Legality of the Presidency of Bishop Shot K. Mondol in the Philippines Central Conference and the Legality of the Proceedings of that Conference	October 27, 1967	Decision
249	Petition from the Western North Carolina Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision Con- cerning the Meaning of Paragraph 325.3(l)	October 26, 1967	Decision
252	Ruling of Bishop James W. Henley in the Florida Annual Conference Concerning the Right of the Annual Conference to Determine the Maximum Amount Which a Local Church May Allow Its Pastor or Pastors as Reimbursement for Travel Expenses.	October 26, 1967	Decision
251	Request of the Council on World Service and Finance for Clarification of Decision No. 236	October 26, 1967	Decision
247	Petition from the Holston Conference for a Declaratory Decision Concerning the Responsibility to Assure that the Provisions of Paragraph 127, Sub- Paragraph 1, of the Discipline Are Followed	October 26, 1967	Decision
246	Petition of the Commission on Interjurisdictional Relations for a Clarification of Decision No. 242 and a Declaratory Decision as to the Effect of Certain Paragraphs of the Constitution of The United Methodist Church on Elimination of Annual Conferences Based on Race.	October 26, 1967	Decision
245	Petition of the North Carolina Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision Interpreting the Application of Amendment IX of the Constitution, to Determine Whether a Two-thirds Majority Vote of Each Annual Conference of the Affected Jurisdictions Is Required to Adopt a Resolution Providing for the Transfer and Conjoint Merger of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference of the Central Jurisdiction to and Into the North Carolina Annual Conference, the Virginia Annual Conference and the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the Southeastern Jurisdiction	November 10, 1966	Decision
244	Request of the General Conference for a Declaratory Decision on the Effect of an Abstention from Voting on an Amendment to the Constitution	November 10, 1966	Decision
243	Request of the General Conference Asking for a Declaratory Decision Determining Whether the Proposed Constitution Under the Plan of Union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church Would Require for its Adoption by The Methodist Church a Three-Fourths Majority Vote of the Members of the Several Annual Conferences Present and Voting	November 09, 1966	Decision
242	Request of the General Conference for a Declaratory Decision Concerning the Impact of Article IV of Division One of the Proposed Constitution of The United Methodist Church Upon the Transi- tional Existence of Annual Conferences Predominantly Racial in Composition	November 09, 1966	Decision