The Curmudgeon: The Issue Is Finally Joined in Pittsburgh (I)

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
A. S. Haley

Excerpt:
Yesterday, with the filing of an "Answer and New Matter to Complaint in Intervention", the issue of ECUSA's "hierarchical polity" has finally been joined in Pittsburgh. Please remember that this is an issue that has been left for a later day, and that the upcoming hearing on May 27 will be focused solely on the proper interpretation of paragraph 1 of the parties' October 2005 stipulation to settle the case, as I have explained in this post. If the court decides, as a result of the evidence offered at that hearing, that the language added by Calvary's attorney was merely descriptive in effect (even though in his heart he may have intended it to be prescriptive), then the Court will have to address the issues presented by ECUSA's complaint in intervention.

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