# Concerned Members of Old Elam Baptist Church v. Board of Trustees

> Supreme Court of Alabama · May 25, 2007 · 983 So. 2d 1079

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7793156

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex parte BOARD OF TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS AND/OR DEACONS OF OLD ELAM BAPTIST CHURCH. (In re Concerned Members of Old Elam Baptist Church v. Board of Trustees/Directors and/or Deacons of Old Elam Baptist Church)
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** May 25, 2007
- **Citations:** 983 So. 2d 1079; 2007 Ala. LEXIS 92; 2007 WL 1519867
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Smith
- **Judges:** Bolin, Cobb, Lyons, Murdock, Parker, See, Smith, Stuart, Woodall
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the trial court had jurisdiction for the limited purpose of determining whether the appropriate authority in the church had terminated the plaintiffs membership and stating: “As these proceedings go forward, the trial court should focus its 'inquiry on whether ‘th…

## Opinion text

On Application for Rehearing
SMITH, Justice.
APPLICATION OVERRULED.
COBB, C.J., and SEE, LYONS, WOODALL, STUART, BOLIN, and MURDOCK, JJ., concur.
PARKER, J., concurs specially.

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