BREAKING NEWS ---
SUPREME COURT REQUESTS RESPONSE FROM THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH SIDE
On today, February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court requested a response from the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church in South Carolina. The response would be a counter argument to the Feb. 9 petition from the Diocese of South Carolina to the court. TEC and TECSC had originally waived a response to DSC's petition in order to expedite the case.
The court's deadline for the response is March 29, 2018.
The information of this case is on the Supreme Court website. Find it here .
Presumably this will mean the conference that the court had set for Mar. 16 will be delayed; however the court website is still listing the conference date as Mar. 16.
The court's deadline for the response is March 29, 2018.
The information of this case is on the Supreme Court website. Find it here .
Presumably this will mean the conference that the court had set for Mar. 16 will be delayed; however the court website is still listing the conference date as Mar. 16.
This is all the information I have at the moment. I will return when I have more to share.
A response does not necessarily mean anything one way or another. It just means the justices want more information from the opposing side. This happened in the Ft. Worth case. In that incident, the Church side petitioned the court for cert. The independent diocese of Ft. Worth waived its right to file a response whereupon the court requested a response. Ft. Worth did make a response and soon thereafter the court denied the Church's petition for cert. Thus, a response is not necessarily a precursor of the decision to come.
