Litigation - the Diocese of Fort Worth

The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, which is incorporated under Texas law, voted at its annual convention in November 2008 to amend its Constitution and bylaws to make the corporation no longer a diocese in ECUSA. Predictably, ECUSA's Presiding Bishop and her Chancellor have moved in to organize the dissenters into a body that they think can serve as a vehicle for a lawsuit against the departed diocese to assert claims to its bank accounts and property. The moves in that game, and what is wrong with ECUSA's strategy, are detailed in the posts below.

The Situation in Fort Worth

Making Proper Plans to Remain Episcopal

Hypocrisy? You Call That Hypocrisy??

Bishop Wantland Knows His Canons

Tragic Results of a Bishop Scorned

My Head Is Starting to Hurt

The Bandit Bishop Strikes Again

Having Celebrated Easter, Let's Get Back to Business

To Whom It May Concern (II)

815's Day of Reckoning Approaches

Breaking: Hearing in Fort Worth Continued to Next Week

High Noon in Fort Worth

Time for Logic in Fort Worth

The Law Inches Forward in Fort Worth

Appellate Court Stays Proceedings in Fort Worth

A Vestry Member Returns the Favor

Fort Worth to Go First

Oral Arguments in the Fort Worth Case

ECUSA's Strategy Goes Down in Flames in Fort Worth

The Spin Double-Spun

ECUSA Defies Texas Courts

ECUSA Beaten Back in Hood County

ECUSA -- the Big Bad Wolf of Texas

Court Cases Postponed in Fresno and Texas

In Texas, ECUSA Es Muy Loco

And Yet Another Lawsuit in Fort Worth

Federal Court Issues Stay in Ft. Worth Trademark Case

New Filings in Fort Worth

ECUSA's Fort Worth Attorney Charged with Unprofessional Conduct

Arguing the Fort Worth Case: Ships Passing in the Night

Fort Worth Judge Signs ECUSA Orders

Bishop Iker Files for Stay of Orders

Fort Worth Judge Modifies Orders; Appeal Delayed

A Not Too Subtle Attempt to Mislead

Court News for Pittsburgh, Fort Worth and San Joaquin

Bishop Iker and Diocese to Appeal to Texas Supreme Court

Hearing Tomorrow on Fort Worth Appeal Bond Issues

Foiled Again!

Fort Worth Requests Texas Supreme Court to Hear Appeal

Texas Supreme Court Asks for Full Briefing in Good Shepherd Case

Judge Chupp Sets $100,000 Bond for Ft. Worth Appeal

Texas Supreme Court to Hear San Angelo Case

Big News in Fort Worth

Fort Worth Files Its Opening Brief

Fort Worth Diocese Completes Briefing in Texas Supreme Court

Have They Violated Title IV? Ten Brave Episcopal Clergy Defy ECUSA in Fort Worth Case

Nicely Done, Judge Brister

Stalinist Tactics Deployed to Silence ECUSA Bishops in Court

Bishopsgate Plot Thickens: Complaint Timed to Intimidate Witness

Charge of the Lie Brigade

Bishop Iker Responds to Amicus Complaints by Requesting Expedited Hearing in Texas Supreme Court

Texas Supreme Court Sets Oct. 16 Date for Fort Worth Appeal

Oral Arguments Tomorrow in Texas and Virginia

Arguing the Texas Cases

Arguing the Texas Cases (II)

What Is It about "Conflicts of Interest" that the Kangaroo Court Cannot Understand?

Fearless Ephraim Radner+ Brings ECUSA's Ham-handedness to Court's Attention

No News from Texas; Sad News from Virginia

Bishop Iker and Church of the Good Shepherd Win in Texas

Bishop Iker to 815: Just a Suggestion - Read St. Paul Lately?

Federal Court in Fort Worth Closes Two Lawsuits

ECUSA Parties Move for Rehearing in Texas Supreme Court

TX Supreme Court Denies Rehearing in ECUSA Cases

SC and TX Courts Show ECUSA Which Way the Wind Blows

Texas Supreme Court Denies Motion for Stay / Recall

SCOTUS Denies ECUSA's Bid for Review of Ft. Worth and San Angelo Decisions

Judge Chupp to Decide Ft. Worth Case

The Meaning of the Fort Worth Decision

Dust-up in Fort Worth over All Saints

(BREAKING) +Iker and Diocese Win All Saints FW Case

Final Judgment in Fort Worth Case

Texas Court's Mighty Labor Is in Vain 

Texas Supreme Court Refutes ECUSA's Sophistries

Dennis Canon Dead in Texas


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