LEGAL UPDATE

On September 1, the independent Diocese of South Carolina filed three petitions for rehearing with the South Carolina Supreme Court in an attempt to change the Court's August 2 decision awarding 29 parishes and Camp St. Christopher to the Episcopal Church diocese, the Episcopal Church in South Carolina.

On September 7, the Court asked lawyers for TECSC to submit a response to the petitions for rehearing and to do so within 10 days (Sept. 17). Presumably TECSC will ask the Court to deny a rehearing.

After TECSC files its response, the Court will consider whether to grant or deny the petitions for rehearing. There is no time frame for this although it is doubtful that the Court would take another 22 months to make a decision.