Most Recent Decisions

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Title Date
Type
2 The request of the Uniting Conference for a Declaratory Decision on the right of a Jurisdictional Conference to act upon a merger of Annual Conferences, deferring the effective date until a favorable vote is obtained in the Annual Conferences directly involved. April 26, 1968 ICJ
1 Request of the Uniting Conference for a Declaratory Decision as to whether Annual Conference with overlapping boundaries may change those boundaries or merge without obtaining Jurisdictional Conference approval of the number, names and boundaries of the Annual Conferences involved. April 26, 1968 ICJ
255 Petition from the Central Kansas Annual Conference for the Determination of any Claim of Dean W. Dryden to Participation in the Benefits of the Chaplains Pension Fund. April 21, 1968 Decision
253 Consolidated Petitions for a Declaratory Decision Concerning the Consequences Under Amendment IX of the Vote Taken By Annual Conferences on the So-Called Omnibus Resolutions Submitted to Them By the 1966 Session of the General Conference Insofar as Those Resolutions Purported to Authorize the Transfer of Annual Conferences of the Central Jurisdiction into Other Jurisdictional Conferences and the Merger of Certain of Such Annual Conferences With Annual Conferences of Other Jurisdictions February 04, 1968 Decision
250 Petition of the North Carolina Annual Conference for a Ruling Concerning the Legality of Filing Liens Against a Minister's Pension Annuity to Cover Unpaid Balances in Apportionments for the Conference Pension Fund and of Levying Interest Upon Such Unpaid Balances October 27, 1967 Decision
254 The Right of a Bishop to Appoint a Minister in the Effective Relationship with an Annual Conference to the District Superintendency or a Pastorate in Another Annual Conference Also under His Jurisdiction without Transferring the Minister from the First to the Second Annual Conference October 27, 1967 Decision
248 Ruling of Bishop Jose L. Valencia Concerning the Legality of the Presidency of Bishop Shot K. Mondol in the Philippines Central Conference and the Legality of the Proceedings of that Conference October 27, 1967 Decision
249 Petition from the Western North Carolina Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision Con- cerning the Meaning of Paragraph 325.3(l) October 26, 1967 Decision
252 Ruling of Bishop James W. Henley in the Florida Annual Conference Concerning the Right of the Annual Conference to Determine the Maximum Amount Which a Local Church May Allow Its Pastor or Pastors as Reimbursement for Travel Expenses. October 26, 1967 Decision
251 Request of the Council on World Service and Finance for Clarification of Decision No. 236 October 26, 1967 Decision
247 Petition from the Holston Conference for a Declaratory Decision Concerning the Responsibility to Assure that the Provisions of Paragraph 127, Sub- Paragraph 1, of the Discipline Are Followed October 26, 1967 Decision
246 Petition of the Commission on Interjurisdictional Relations for a Clarification of Decision No. 242 and a Declaratory Decision as to the Effect of Certain Paragraphs of the Constitution of The United Methodist Church on Elimination of Annual Conferences Based on Race. October 26, 1967 Decision

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