Brief of The Catholic University of America School of Canon Law, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, The Queens Federation of Churches, and The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners

Abstract

This brief addresses the importance of the principle of church autonomy and the protections provided by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court\u27s precedents regarding religious denominations\u27 internal mandatory dispute-resolution procedures