Most Recent Decisions

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Title Date
Type
307 Petitions from the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church and the Joint Commission on Church Union for a Declaratory Decision Concerning the Postponement or Cancellation of the 1970 Special Session of the General Conference January 29, 1969 Decision
306 An Appeal Taken in the Holston Annual Conference from the Ruling of Bishop H. E. Finger, Jr., That a Provision Granting Priority Claim to Items of Ministerial Support in a Conference Budget which includes All General Church and Conference Causes, and for the Support of Which a Single Apportionment Is Sent to Local Churches, Is in Conformity to the Discipline. November 08, 1968 Decision
305 Ruling of Bishop Jose L. Valencia Concerning the Definition of Quadrennial Election of Lay Delegates to the Annual Conference. November 08, 1968 Decision
304 Request of the Southwest Texas Annual Conference for Declaratory Decision as to Legality of the Conference Board of Pensions Report Adopted by the Annual Conference. November 08, 1968 Decision
303 The Request of the Co-ordinating Council of the Philippines Central Conference for a Declaratory Decision on Whether or Not Paragraph 394.4 of the 1968 Discipline Granting an Elder Who Has Served as a Bishop up to the Time of His Retirement the Status of a Retired Bishop Is Retroactive. November 08, 1968 Decision
302 Request of the General Conference Commission on Entertainment and Program for a Declaratory Decision as to How the Delegates to the 1970 Special Session of the General Conference Shall Be Constituted. November 08, 1968 Decision
301 Petitions from the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference and the Florida Annual Conference for Declaratory Decision as to the Constitutionality, Meaning, Application and Effect of the Statement Endorsed by the 1968 General Conference, entitled "The Rule of Law and the Right of Dissent." November 08, 1968 Decision
8 Request of the Uniting Conference that the Interim Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church be requested to rule on the constitutionality of the authority of the Commission on Religion and Race with respect to the "Merging of Annual Conferences." May 02, 1968 ICJ
6 The appeal of the Uniting Conference for a ruling on the constitutionality of its action in adopting Report No. 17 of the Committee on Christian Social Concerns. May 02, 1968 ICJ
4 Constitutionality of a recommendation by the uniting conference to the Council of Bishops that an investigating committee authorized by the Uniting Conference include not less than a certain number of Negroes. May 01, 1968 ICJ
5 The request of the Uniting Conference for a Declaratory Decision to determine the constitutionality of the establishment and composition of the Commission on Religion and Race as approved by the Uniting Conference in the adoption of Report No. 7 of the Committee on Conferences. April 30, 1968 ICJ
3 The status of duly elected Delegates to the Uniting Conference who have been elected to the Interim Judicial Council of the Uniting Conference with respect to the right of such delegates to serve in the General Conference and a Jurisdictional Conference. April 28, 1968 ICJ

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