Citing the First Amendment-based ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, a Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a trademark-infringement case that she said turns on claims about whether one church is truly a branch of the late-Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church and on the rightful ownership of the opposing church in the lawsuit.

The trademark-infringement and unfair-competition action over use of Moon’s 1965-created Twelve Gates, or Tongil, symbol also appears to be part of a continuing dispute—and previous litigation—between Moon’s surviving wife and one of their sons over who’s the “true heir” to Moon, according to the opinion from U.S. District Judge Jennifer P. Wilson of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.