Judicial Council

Most Recent Decisions

#	Title	Date	Type
121	Request of the Northwest Philippines An- nual Conference for a Declaratory Decision Concerning Its Right or Power to Ordain a Woman as Local Deacon	July 29, 1955	Decision
120	Validity of the Election of Fred B. Noble, Member of the Judicial Council as a Delegate to the 1956 Jurisdictional Conference of the Southeastern Jurisdiction of The Methodist Church	July 29, 1955	Decision
119	Whether the Proceeds of the Sale of Grace Methodist Church of Portland, Oregon, Should Be Turned Over to the Conference Claim- ants' Endowment Fund, or to the Port- land District of the Oregon Annual Conference	July 28, 1955	Decision
118	Request of the Ohio Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision on the Question "Can the Church Treasurer Withhold Pension Fund Assessments and Send Them in Directly to the Pension Office or Must the Ministers Send the Money in Themselves?"	July 28, 1955	Decision
117	Request of Council of Bishops for a Declaratory Decision on the Question "Whether or Not a Retired Bishop of a Central Conference Is Authorized to Attend Meetings of the Council of Bishops with Expenses Paid"	July 28, 1955	Decision
116	Appeal of Reverend L. Blake Craft in the Case of North Georgia Annual Conference vs. the Reverend L. Blake Craft	July 28, 1955	Decision
115	Ruling of Bishop Clare Purcell Relative to the Real and Legal Date of the Close of the An- nual Conference Year, Given at the Session of the North Alabama Conference, September 8-12, 1954	July 28, 1955	Decision
114	Requiring the Consent of a Ministerial Mem- ber of An Annual Conference Before He Can Be Transferred to Another Annual Conference	July 28, 1955	Decision
113	Ruling of Bishop Dana Dawson as to What Constitutes a Pastoral Charge in the Election of Lay Members of An Annual Conference	July 28, 1955	Decision
112	Ruling by Bishop Watkins on Whether An Approved Supply Pastor Can Be Elected By His Charge as a Lay Member of the Annual Conference	July 28, 1955	Decision
111	Answer of a Candidate for the Traveling Ministry as to His Abstinence From the Use of Tobacco	July 20, 1954	Decision
110	Request of New England Southern Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision as to the Meaning, Application and Effect of Paragraphs 375 and 309 of Discipline of 1952 Referring to Termination of Annual Conference Membership by Voluntary Location	July 20, 1954	Decision