Fort Worth NW Free Seventh-Day Adventist Church F/K/A Fort Worth Northwest Seventh-Day Adventist Church v. Texas Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, Southwestern Union Conference Corporation of Seventh-Day Adventists, Texas Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists, and Alice Cash
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The court affirmed the dismissal of the Northwest Church's lawsuit based on the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, which deprived the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction over the internal religious dispute.
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