Judicial Council

Most Recent Decisions

#	Title	Date	Type
1436	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Indiana Annual Conference Concerning the Legality of the Conference Rules that Govern the Nomination and Election of General and Jurisdictional Conference delegates.	June 03, 2022	Decision
1427	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Indiana Annual Conference Regarding Conference Rules that Govern Youth and Young Adult Eligibility Requirement to Serve as Lay Members to Annual Conference and those Rules that Govern Eligibility for Members of District Conference to Vote on the District-At-Large Lay Members to Annual Conference.	June 03, 2022	Decision
1426	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Regarding the Legality of Process and Procedures Relating to the January 2021 Special Session of Annual Conference.	June 03, 2022	Decision
1446	IN RE: Modification of Judicial Council Decision 1445	June 01, 2022	Memorandum
1445	IN RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Council of Bishops on Questions Related to Calling and Holding Regular Sessions of the Jurisdictional Conference Pursuant to ¶¶ 26, 27.2, 45, 404.2, 405, 406, 407, 512, and 521.2 of the 2016 Book of Discipline.	May 20, 2022	Decision
1444	In RE: Petition for Declaratory Decision from the Council of Bishops on Questions Related to the Separation of an Annual Conference Within the United States from The United Methodist Church.	May 10, 2022	Decision
1443	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on a Question of Law in the California-Pacific Annual Conference pursuant to ¶¶ 419.10,2718.1 and 2718.2 Concerning the Agenda and Voting Procedures during a Joint Charge Conference [¶246.10].	April 18, 2022	Decision
1442	IN RE: Request for a Declaratory Decision from the Upper New York Annual Conference as to whether ¶635.1(a) of the 2016 Discipline Operates to Preclude and Prohibit Nominations to the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry from the Floor of the Annual Conference	April 18, 2022	Memorandum
1435	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Decision of Law in the Dakotas Annual Conference as to Whether the Resolution “A Vision for a More Just Church” Negates, Ignores, or Violates Church Law.	April 18, 2022	Decision
1434	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the Michigan Annual Conference Concerning the Legality of the Annual Conference’s Statement on Inclusiveness.	April 18, 2022	Decision
1441	IN RE: Request for reconsideration of Judicial Council Decision 1421	March 28, 2022	Memorandum
1440	IN RE: Review of a Bishop’s Ruling on a Question in the North Carolina Annual Conference Concerning the Legality of Requiring the Members of Annual Conference to Vote to Accept or Reject the “Special Standing Rules of Order For Annual Conference 2021,” Without Opportunity for Debate or Amendment, Prior to the Convening of the Annual Conference Session.	March 28, 2022	Decision