ENS: PITTSBURGH: Court tells diocese to turn over documents by January 31
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
Sunday, January 28, 2007

A judge has agreed with a request by Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh to speed up the disclosure of information it requested from the Diocese of Pittsburgh in connection with a court case meant to enforce a ruling prohibiting the diocese from transferring title or use of real or personal property to any entity outside of the Episcopal Church.

The normal time for such so-called "discovery" is 30 days; the parish asked for a 21-day limit. Calvary argued the limited time frame is needed in part because it said that the court should rule before the meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion February 15-19 in Tanzania. Calvary’s December 19 petition said that some of the primates and Duncan are planning to use the meeting to further their efforts to set up an alternative Anglican structure in the United States.

The diocese must comply with the discovery request by January 31.

Calvary’s petition alleged that "despite assertions to the contrary -- persons and property within the Diocese are effectively being removed or have been removed from the Episcopal Church" in the wake of the diocesan convention's decision in early November to request a relationship with a primate other than Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and to withdraw consent to membership in the Episcopal Church's Province III. the rest