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Arguing the Quincy Case in Appellate Court
Arguing the Quincy Case in Appellate Court
By A.S. HALEY
ANGLICAN CURMUDGEON
http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/
June 20,2014
On Wednesday, June 18, your Curmudgeon was present to hear the oral arguments in ECUSA's appeal from the decision of Judge Thomas M. Ortbal last September, which held that the Diocese of Quincy had the ability to leave, and did leave, ECUSA in 2008. Consequently, Judge Ortbal ruled, neither the rump replacement diocese (now merged into the Diocese of Chicago) nor ECUSA itself had any claims to the real property or bank accounts of the (now) Anglican Diocese of Quincy. (The bank accounts, however, remain frozen at the request of ECUSA pending its appeal.)
The Presiding Bishop's Special Assistant for Property Litigation, Maty Kostel, argued the case for the appellant Episcopal Church; the Presiding Bishop's Chancellor, David Booth Beers, was also at her table. Quincy Chancellor Tad Brenner argued the case for the withdrawing diocese and its bishop (whom ECUSA sued personally, as it has in every such case), with Kent Schnack of Quincy assisting him.< ![CDATA[
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