On Tuesday, October 27, U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Gergel issued an Order and Opinion granting in part the Second Motion to Enforce the Injunction filed by the Diocese of South Carolina on September 10 of this year, in which the historic diocese and The Episcopal Church alleged 27 violations of the Court’s previous…
The Diocese of South Carolina filed a Second Petition to Enforce the Injunction in federal court yesterday, again requesting enforcement of the Court’s Order and Opinion and Permanent Injunction issued on September 19, 2019. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel previously granted the majority of a similar petition filed on November 11, 2019 in an Order…
On Monday afternoon, July 13, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson issued an Order (click to read the order) denying the Motion to Reconsider filed by our Diocese on Monday, June 29. The Motion had been filed after Judge Dickson issued an Order on June 19 that seemingly overturned the South Carolina Supreme Court final judgement from August 2017 which…
On Monday, June 29, attorneys for the (Episcopal) Diocese of South Carolina and The Episcopal Church filed a Motion for Reconsideration and to Alter or Amend in the Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial Circuit. This legal action is in response to the recent Order issued by South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson that seemed to…
CHARLESTON, SC – (June 19, 2020) South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson, tasked in November 2017 by the South Carolina Supreme Court (SCSC) with a remittitur to enforce the final judgment of the SCSC which ruled in August 2017 that the diocesan property and 29 parishes should be returned to the parties affiliated with…
On Tuesday, March 31, the South Carolina Supreme Court issued an order in response to the Writ of Prohibition filed by the Episcopal Church in South Carolina (the Diocese of South Carolina) on February 21. In the brief order, the SC Supreme Court denied the petition. In response to the order, Chancellor Thomas S. Tisdale,…
In a hearing that lasted less than 3o minutes Thursday morning at the Orangeburg County Courthouse, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson heard two motions filed by The Episcopal Church in South Carolina (TECSC, also known as the Diocese of South Carolina) over the past two years seeking enforcement of the South Carolina Supreme…
On Friday, February 21, 2020, attorneys for The Episcopal Church in South Carolina (TECSC, also known as the (Episcopal) Diocese of South Carolina) filed a Petition for a Writ of Prohibition with the South Carolina Supreme Court to bar South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar W. Dickson from re-litigating issues already decided by the South…
In an email sent late Friday, February 14, 2020, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson scheduled a hearing for Thursday, February 27, at 10 am in the Orangeburg County Courthouse in Orangeburg, SC, to hear The Episcopal Church in South Carolina’s (TECSC) Petition for Execution; Motion to Appoint a Special Master; and Petition for…
Yesterday, attorneys for The Episcopal Church in South Carolina (TECSC), also known as The Diocese of South Carolina, filed a notice of appeal in the ongoing case against the Church Insurance Company of Vermont (CIC-VT) whereby TECSC claimed in a motion filed in federal court on June 11, 2019 that CIC-VT acted in bad faith and secretly…
Late today, attorneys for our diocese were notified by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that they have denied the Motion to Stay Injunction and to Stay the Case filed last month by the disassociated diocese. We continue to await a decision on the appeal filed by the disassociated diocese in regard to…
On December 23, 2019, attorneys for the disassociated diocese, as defendants-appellants in the federal trademark infringement and false advertising case brought by The Episcopal Church in South Carolina (TECSC), filed a Motion to Stay the Injunction and Stay the Case with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The motion seeks to temporarily set aside…
