Parsing seldom-interpreted provisions of state law for religious organizations, a Brooklyn appellate court revived a lawsuit by synagogue members who complained that the temple’s board refused to let congregants vote on whether to extend its rabbi’s contract.
“The relatively few courts that have addressed the matter are in agreement that Religious Corporations Law §200 precludes trustees from ‘settling’ or ‘removing’ the minister,” Appellate Division, Second Department, Justice Thomas Dickerson (See Profile) wrote in Kamchi v. Weissman, 2012-08726, overruling a lower court’s dismissal of the case.
