tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post1824799385050072175..comments2024-03-27T08:46:54.369-04:00Comments on BabyBlueOnline: St. James Anglican formally petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn decisionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-64999939889425791852009-06-25T07:09:31.807-04:002009-06-25T07:09:31.807-04:00The mathematical prospect of the Supreme Court tak...The mathematical prospect of the Supreme Court taking any particular case on cert is so miniscule, that I always worry for people who make a big deal about the filing of one of these petitions. Nonetheless, issues arising from disputes over church property may ultimately get to the Supreme Court of the United States through some vector. My guess is that the Virginia situation is headed there ultimately, either instead of this case or in addition to it. <br /><br />I'm not sure that the usual earmarks of the type of case the Court takes are present in this one. There is no great diversity in dispositions around the country (these cases are almost uniformly being decided in favor of the Episcopal Church, the exception being a local court in Virginia where a unique state statute has been controlling thus far) and the issue, as posed in California, is largely one of state law. I haven't read the cert petition, which may do a better job of putting this in constitutional terms, but the press statements sound as though St. James is playing to their own parishioners with their arguments not to the kind of bedrock constitutional issues that would grab the Supreme Court's interest. <br /><br />ScoutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com