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AMATO v. GREENQUIST

Nos. 1-94-2763, 1-95-0350.

679 N.E.2d 446 (1997)

287 Ill. App.3d 921

223 Ill.Dec. 261

Duane F. AMATO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Pastor Vernon C. GREENQUIST, an individual, Bishop Sherman Hicks, an individual, Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America a/k/a ELCA, a foreign not-for-profit corporation, and Peace Lutheran Church of Lake Zurich, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

April 16, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Bellas, Mary Ann Jacoby Miller, Bellas & Wachowski, E. William Maloney, Jr., Maloney, Craven & Longstreet, Des Plains, co-counsel for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward D. D'Arcy, Johnson & Bell, Ltd., Chicago, for defendant-appellee Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a/k/a ELCA.

Justice LEAVITT delivered the opinion of the Court:

Until late 1990, the plaintiff, Duane Amato, had thought himself a happily married man. According to a complaint he filed, he and his wife, Linda, had been married for eighteen years and had two children. In 1987, the Amatos joined Peace Lutheran Church of Lake Zurich (Peace), a fledgling parish headed by the defendant, Pastor Vernon C. Greenquist. The Amatos became active in the church, and in October 1990, Linda...

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