Judicial Council

Most Recent Decisions

#	Title	Date	Type
1519	Request for Reconsideration of Judicial Council Decision 1517	August 07, 2025	Decision
1518	IN RE: Request for a Declaratory Decision from the College of Bishops of the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church Regarding the Meaning, Application and Effect of Paragraph 2549 of the 2016 Book of Discipline as it Relates to the Process of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Annual Conference Adopted on October 20, 2022.	June 02, 2025	Decision
1517	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on a Question asked at the Called Special Session of the Dakotas Conference Regarding the Cabinet Resolution to Close Embrace Church/UMC.	April 25, 2025	Decision
1516	IN RE: Request for a Declaratory Decision From the Arkansas Annual Conference Requesting Clarification of Decision 1503 As It Relates to Paragraphs 16.7 [sic 16.6], 340.2(a)(3)(a), and 2533 of the 2016 Book of Discipline as amended Clarifying the Relative Authority of a Local Church Pastor and a Local Church Board of Trustees in the Use of Church Property for Religious Services.	April 25, 2025	Decision
1515	IN RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Postponed 2020 General Conference Regarding the Constitutionality, Meaning, Application, and Effect of Petition 20956 (¶101)	October 26, 2024	Decision
1514	IN RE: Review of a Decision of Law by Bishop Latrelle Easterling in the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference	October 26, 2024	Decision
1513	Decision 1513 [Docket items 1024-07, 08, 11]	October 26, 2024	Decision
1512	IN RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference regarding the meaning, application, and effect of ¶2549 of The Book of Discipline, 2016, as it relates to a policy, process, or method for United Methodist Churches to exit or separate from the denomination	October 26, 2024	Decision
1511	IN RE: Motion by Kentucky Annual Conference Requesting a Declaratory Decision on Whether Their Conference Can Utilize ¶2549 or Some Other Provision of the Discipline as a Pathway for the Exit of Local Churches from The United Methodist Church	October 26, 2024	Memorandum
1510	IN RE: General Conference petition for a declaratory decision as to meaning, application, and effect of ¶32, Article 1 of the Constitution, and ¶602.4 and ¶602.6 of The Book of Discipline, 2016, regarding the rights of deaconesses to membership, participation, and vote in the Annual Conference	October 26, 2024	Decision
1509	IN RE: Request of United Methodist Women, d/b/a United Women in Faith (“UWFaith”) for Declaratory Decision Regarding the Meaning, Application, and Effect of ¶¶2512 and 2501 of The Book of Discipline, 2016 of The United Methodist Church in Relation to a Claim of Property Ownership by the Liberia Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church	October 26, 2024	Decision
1508	IN RE: Request for Declaratory Decision from the Northeastern Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church As To Whether An Annual Conference May Create and Adopt a Rule to Determine the Eligibility of a Delegate to Jurisdictional and/or General Conference Who is Actively Serving and/or Providing Leadership in a Denomination Not in Full Communion with The United Methodist Church	October 26, 2024	Memorandum