ECUSA’s Strategy Goes Down in Flames in Fort Worth
By A S Haley
As predicted last September on this blog, the Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas has shot down the claims of ECUSA and its puppet Bishop Gulick to be able to come into court pretending they are the true "Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth" and its associated Corporation. The Court's opinion and order represent an unqualified victory for the Diocese and Corporation headed by the Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, which were both established in 1983. Here is the essential quote from the Court of Appeals' opinion (footnotes are omitted; bold emphasis added):
It is undisputed that there is only one Corporation and only one Fort Worth Diocese, regardless of how those entities are named or characterized in the underlying suit – whether as entities, as individuals "holding themselves out" as those entities, or as individuals "associated with" one or the other Bishop. There is a single Fort Worth Diocese and Corporation, which both a majority and a minority faction claim to control. The attorneys whose authority is challenged are either authorized to represent those two entities or they are not. But the trial court has barred them from representing only the Corporation and the Fort Worth Diocese associated with the Iker Group. We are aware of no statute or common law rule allowing attorneys to prosecute a suit in the name of a corporation or other entity on behalf of only one faction or part of that corporation or entity against another part or faction.
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