Most Recent Decisions

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1453 IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference Regarding Whether the Action of the Annual Conference in Approving the Disaffiliation, of Each of the Five Local Churches Placed Before Them, and Approving and Adopting the Disaffiliation Agreements Associated with and Presented to Effectuate Those Disaffiliations, Negates, Ignores and Violates Various Provisions of the Discipline. February 28, 2023 Decision
1452 IN RE: Report of a Bishop's Ruling, Made During the Regular Session of the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference, finding that a Proposed Petition Concerning Disaffiliation was in Violation of the Discipline February 28, 2023 Memorandum
1451 IN RE: Combined Petitions for Declaratory Decision Submitted by the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference (Docket No. 1022-1), Kenya-Ethiopia Annual Conference (Docket No. 1022-2), and Alaska United Methodist Conference (Docket No. 1022-3). December 12, 2022 Decision
1450 IN RE: In the Matter of an Appeal of a Bishop in the United States October 25, 2022 Memorandum
1449 IN RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Council of Bishops on Questions Related to ¶ 2548.2 of the 2016 Book of Discipline August 22, 2022 Decision
1448 In Re: Question concerning the legality of an Annual Conference Resolution which declares that the Bulgaria-Romania Provisional Annual Conference, part of the Central and Southern Europe Central Conference, “withdraws from and severs all ties, legal or otherwise, with The United Methodist Church as of 1 May 2022 and immediately becomes an annual conference of the Global Methodist Church …. This resolution is not made on the basis of ¶ 572 of the Discipline of The United Methodist Church.” August 22, 2022 Memorandum
1436 IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Indiana Annual Conference Concerning the Legality of the Conference Rules that Govern the Nomination and Election of General and Jurisdictional Conference delegates. June 03, 2022 Decision
1427 IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Indiana Annual Conference Regarding Conference Rules that Govern Youth and Young Adult Eligibility Requirement to Serve as Lay Members to Annual Conference and those Rules that Govern Eligibility for Members of District Conference to Vote on the District-At-Large Lay Members to Annual Conference. June 03, 2022 Decision
1426 IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Regarding the Legality of Process and Procedures Relating to the January 2021 Special Session of Annual Conference. June 03, 2022 Decision
1446 IN RE: Modification of Judicial Council Decision 1445 June 01, 2022 Memorandum
1445 IN RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Council of Bishops on Questions Related to Calling and Holding Regular Sessions of the Jurisdictional Conference Pursuant to ¶¶ 26, 27.2, 45, 404.2, 405, 406, 407, 512, and 521.2 of the 2016 Book of Discipline. May 20, 2022 Decision
1444 In RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Council of Bishops on Questions Related to the Separation of an Annual Conference Within the United States from The United Methodist Church. May 10, 2022 Decision

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