Federal judge deals another blow to church in Hutchinson Center dispute

Federal judge deals another blow to church in Hutchinson Center dispute

A judge denied an evangelical church's latest request to stop the sale of the Belfast building by the University of Maine System, which the church quickly appealed.

Court blocks Belfast church’s lawsuit to stop sale of UMaine facility

This story will be updated. A federal judge has rejected a Belfast church’s attempt to stop the University of Maine System’s sale of the local Hutchinson Center to a nonprofit organization. On Wednesday morning, Judge Stacey Neumann issued a decision denying the preliminary injunction that Calvary Chapel Belfast sought to block the system’s sale of the center to Waldo Community Action Partners. Calvary Chapel Belfast has already filed an appeal …

Fight over ownership of remote Newfoundland church now in judge's hands

A judge will now decide whether a Catholic archdiocese in Newfoundland and Labrador has the right to sell a church in a tiny Avalon Peninsula community in order to help compensate victims of sexual abuse.

They locked a Newfoundland church so it wouldn’t be sold. Its fate is now in court.

ST. JOHN'S - The fate of a rural Newfoundland church is in the hands of a judge after lawyers argued today its parishioners must hand it over to be sold to compensate survivors of historical abuse in St. John's.

They locked a Newfoundland church so it wouldn't be sold. Its fate is now in court.

ST. JOHN'S — The fate of a rural Newfoundland church is in the hands of a judge after lawyers argued today its parishioners must hand it over to be sold to compensate survivors of historical abuse in St. John's.

Maine Church Appeals Religious Discrimination Case - The Iowa Standard

Liberty Counsel has appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a federal judge denying Calvary Chapel Belfast a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the University of Maine System (UMS) from discriminating against the church in a property sale over its religious beliefs. The church sought an injunction after UMS rescinded the church’s winning bid for the Hutchinson Center building after public, legislative, and donor…