Most Recent Decisions

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Title Date
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877 Request from The South Carolina Annual Conference For A Declaratory Decision On Whether The Language of Par. 323 of the 1996 Discipline Conflicts With The Language of Par. 335.1 (d) And Whether These Paragraphs Are Applicable To The New Deacons in Full Connection As Well As To Elders in Full Connection. October 28, 1999 Decision
876 Request from the California-Pacific Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision on Whether It Is Legal under the 1996 Discipline for an Annual Conference to Use the "Discernment" Model for Decision-Making. October 28, 1999 Decision
875 Request from the California-Pacific Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision on the Meaning, Application and Effect of the Amendment to the Constitution Ratified in 1997 Which Says "The Ordained Ministerial Delegates to the General Conference and to the Jurisdictional or Central Conferences Shall Be Elected by and from the Ordained Ministerial Members in Full Connection with the Annual Conference or Provisional Annual Conference." October 28, 1999 Decision
874 Review of Bishop's Ruling of Law on Whether the General Council on Finance Administration Should Stop All Funds (Salaries) Being Paid to Those United Methodist Bishops Who Voted in Favor of Providing University Benefits for Same-Sex Domestic Partners. October 28, 1999 Decision
873 Review of Bishop's Ruling of Law in the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference on Whether the Conference Structure Is in Compliance with the 1996 Book of Discipline. October 28, 1999 Decision
872 Request From the Minnesota Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision on the Constitutionality of Par. 2628.1(j). October 28, 1999 Decision
871 Review of Bishop's Decision of Law in the Northwest Texas Annual Conference Requiring Any Church Adopting an Identification Label to Reverse That Action. October 28, 1999 Decision
870 Review of Bishop's Decision of Law in the Rocky Mountain Annual Conference Related to a Petition on Inclusiveness of the Church Presented for Adoption by the Annual Conference. October 28, 1999 Memorandum
869 Request from United Methodist Communications for a Declaratory Decision on Whether Par. 721 of the 1996 Discipline Applies to the Council of Bishops and Official Organizations of Annual Conferences. October 28, 1999 Decision
868 Review of the Sexual Harassment Policy of the Minnesota Annual Conference. October 28, 1999 Memorandum
867 Review of Bishop's Decision of Law in the West Michigan Annual Conference on Questions of Procedures and Law from a Clergy Member Placed on Administrative Leave. October 28, 1999 Decision
866 Review of Bishop=s Decision of Law in the Wisconsin Annual Conference on Whether Mandatory Conference-Wide Insurance Is Legal and Appropriate in Light of & 2532 of the 1996 Discipline. October 28, 1999 Decision

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