Springhill Missionary Baptist Church of Gainesville/courtesy of Google street view
Pointing to a need to keep courts out of internal religious disputes, an appeals court scuttled a lawsuit over the dismissal of a former deacon from a Gainesville church.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal was at least the second such decision in recent months by state appellate courts. In May, a South Florida appeals court ruled against a priest who alleged that he had been defamed by the Diocese of Palm Beach.
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