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Texas Supreme Court disagrees with Guinn vs. Church of Christ precedent in recent church discipline case
Nonprofit and Church Legal Trends - Free Edition - March April 2008 (free edition)
In the most important church discipline case since Guinn v. Church of Christ (Oklahoma 1989), the Texas Supreme Court disagreed with Guinn decision in key ways such as ruling that
- the Court could not hear cases of church discipline under existing tort theories; and
- the pastor was not liable for divulging confidential information to the members in the context of church discipline.
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