Judicial Council

Most Recent Decisions

#	Title	Date	Type
1459	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Wisconsin Annual Conference Concerning Seven Aspects of the Conference's Implementation of ¶ 2553.	February 28, 2023	Decision
1458	IN RE: Review of a Bishop's Ruling on a Question of Law in the Susquehanna Annual Conference Concerning the Role and Authority of the Conference Board of Trustees in Relation to the Role and Authority of the Annual Conference Particularly Given Provisions such as those in ¶ 2512 versus the Disaffiliation Provision contained in ¶ 2553.	February 28, 2023	Decision
1457	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on a Question of Law in the West Ohio Annual Conference Concerning the Role and Authority of the Conference Board of Trustees in Relation to the Role and Authority of the Annual Conference Particularly Given Provisions such as those in ¶ 2512 versus the Disaffiliation Provision contained in ¶ 2553.	February 28, 2023	Decision
1456	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Report of Questions Submitted During the Indiana Annual Conference Concerning Unadopted Legislation that was Ruled Out of Order and in Violation of the Discipline	February 28, 2023	Decision
1455	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on a Question of Law in the West Ohio Annual Conference Regarding Whether Certain Sections of its Legislation Related to Disaffiliation, Violate Portions of the Book of Discipline including ¶ 2548.2 and ¶ 2553?	February 28, 2023	Decision
1454	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Texas Annual Conference Related to the Legality and Authority of the General Conference to Provide a Specific Window of Opportunity for Qualifying Local Churches to Disaffiliate	February 28, 2023	Decision
1453	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference Regarding Whether the Action of the Annual Conference in Approving the Disaffiliation, of Each of the Five Local Churches Placed Before Them, and Approving and Adopting the Disaffiliation Agreements Associated with and Presented to Effectuate Those Disaffiliations, Negates, Ignores and Violates Various Provisions of the Discipline.	February 28, 2023	Decision
1452	IN RE: Report of a Bishop's Ruling, Made During the Regular Session of the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference, finding that a Proposed Petition Concerning Disaffiliation was in Violation of the Discipline	February 28, 2023	Memorandum
1451	IN RE: Combined Petitions for Declaratory Decision Submitted by the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference (Docket No. 1022-1), Kenya-Ethiopia Annual Conference (Docket No. 1022-2), and Alaska United Methodist Conference (Docket No. 1022-3).	December 12, 2022	Decision
1450	IN RE: In the Matter of an Appeal of a Bishop in the United States	October 25, 2022	Memorandum
1449	IN RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Council of Bishops on Questions Related to ¶ 2548.2 of the 2016 Book of Discipline	August 22, 2022	Decision
1448	In Re: Question concerning the legality of an Annual Conference Resolution which declares that the Bulgaria-Romania Provisional Annual Conference, part of the Central and Southern Europe Central Conference, “withdraws from and severs all ties, legal or otherwise, with The United Methodist Church as of 1 May 2022 and immediately becomes an annual conference of the Global Methodist Church …. This resolution is not made on the basis of ¶ 572 of the Discipline of The United Methodist Church.”	August 22, 2022	Memorandum