IN RE JOHN DOE
May 23, 2018
SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS
Case No. 17-1005

This amicus letter was written to support a Petition for Writ of Mandamus where a Plaintiff’s lawsuit was barred based on the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. Includes issue of whether a private school with a religious sounding name and/or loose religious affiliation can rely on the religious freedom provision of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to avoid a civil court’s jurisdiction even though the school touts itself as secular, promises a secular education, does not teach or ascribe to a particular religion, and the conduct at issue in the case has nothing to do with religion.

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