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40TH STREET AND FAIRMOUNT AVE. CHURCH OF GOD v. STOVER

Civ. A. No. 70-938.

316 F.Supp. 375 (1970)

40TH STREET AND FAIRMOUNT AVENUE CHURCH OF GOD, its Members and its Duly Incorporated Body and Reverend Horace A. Hawes, Individually and other Members Similarly Situated, v. Paul STOVER, Overseer of National Body of Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee and The National Body of the Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

July 21, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Randolph, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Herman Blumenthal, of Fine, Staud, Silverman & Grossman, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge

INTRODUCTION

More than 25 years ago, Mr. Justice Jackson reminded our nation and the Courts that, "if there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism [or] religion1."

Today, this Court is being requested to decide what should be the orthodoxy and what is fair...

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