BALDWIN ET AL.

v.

MILLS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• The NEW Jerusalem Church OF GOD, Inc. v. Sneads Cmty. Church, Inc., 147 So. 3d 25 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013)
  …gment and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of Jones v. Wolf, 443 U.S. 595, 99 S.Ct. 3020, 61 L.Ed.2d 775 (1979) (stating that church property disputes may also be resolved by applying neutral principles of law). See Baldwin v. Mills, 443 U.S. 914, 99 S.Ct. 3105, 61 L.Ed.2d 878 (1979). Following remand, the Florida Supreme Court reinstated its previous decision in Mills. See Mills v. Baldwin, 377 So. 2d 971 (Fla.1980). This decision was also appealed to the United States Supreme Court, bu…
• W.S. Townsend v. I.R. Teagle, 467 So. 2d 772 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985)
  …by civil courts of controversies over religious doctrine and practice.” 393 judgment and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of its recent decision in Jones v. Wolf, 443 U.S. 595, 99 S.Ct. 3020, 61 L.Ed.2d 775 (1979). Baldwin v. Mills, 443 U.S. 914, 99 S.Ct. 3105, 61 L.Ed.2d 878 (1979). In Jones v. Wolf, the court stated that the states may utilize either of two theories when dealing with church property disputes: the neutral principles approach or the deference approach. Following the reman…
• Bethel AME Church OF Newberry v. Domingo, 654 So. 2d 233 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995)
  …uding that they were the rightful owners of the church property. The principle of church structure which governs church property disputes, as articulated in the controlling case of Mills v. Baldwin, 362 So. 2d 2 (Fla.1978), vacated on other grounds, 443 U.S. 914, 99 S.Ct. 3105, 61 L.Ed.2d 878 (1979), reinstated on remand, 377 So. 2d 971 (Fla.1979), cert. denied, 446 U.S. 983, 100 S.Ct. 2964, 64 L.Ed.2d 839 (1980), requires that church property remain with the parent church where, as here, the church is hier…