California Court of Appeal

In a case involving a local church's effort to disaffiliate from a national denomination, trial court's grant of permanent injunction is affirmed as, under established California law, the disaffiliation attempt was ineffective and the oversight entity superseded the governing board.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/15/2009
• Published 09/15/2009

Judges

• REARDON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Penner, Bradley & Simonian, Peter Sean Bradley, Fresno, Randall M. Penner, Mayer Brown, Donald M. Falk, Palo Alto, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jones Day, Alan E. Friedman, Geoffrey P. Forgione, Orian J. Lee, Los Angeles, for Respondent.