Lawsuit

A North Carolina megachurch bought a $2.1 million site for a 1,200-seat campus, but the county denied rezoning over traffic and tax base concerns, leading to a federal lawsuit under religious land-use law.

A South African court refused the Apostolic Faith Mission leave to appeal an order returning the keys of a building to a pastor couple, drawing a clear line between ownership and possession.

A South African court refused the Apostolic Faith Mission leave to appeal an order returning the keys of a building to a pastor couple, drawing a clear line between ownership and possession.

A Maryland resort town that fined an Episcopal church $1,000 a day for sheltering homeless people in its hall has countersued, claiming the shelter has never been a permitted use under the zoning code.

A Maryland resort town that fined an Episcopal church $1,000 a day for sheltering homeless people in its hall has countersued, claiming the shelter has never been a permitted use under the zoning code.

A client paid a real estate attorney $19 million toward a $57.5 million house purchase, leaving a $37 million shortfall the disbarred attorney has now promised, again, to repay.

A family company put 169.5 acres up for auction. A rival family faction ran a competing notice in the same newspaper warning the sale was unapproved and void, two decades into an inheritance dispute.

An attorney was found guilty of professional misconduct ten separate times and remained in practice throughout, now facing a separate fraudulent conversion charge over $8.2 million from a client’s property sale.

Kenya’s Mbita Parish church was demolished and fenced off by rival claimants in February 2026, on land allocated to the Anglican Church in 1985, as the diocese plans to sue for more than $50,000.

The Archdiocese of New York agreed to sell the ground lease beneath the Lotte New York Palace hotel at 455 Madison Avenue for $490 million, with the money going to clergy abuse compensation and repaying loans from earlier settlements.

Mumbai Catholics sent a legal notice to their archbishop over property at St Stephen’s Church valued at about US$11.2 million, arguing church leaders are only trustees, while the archdiocese said it was seeking bids to redevelop adjacent land.

All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, evicted from its building in 2021 after a long property battle, bought a United Methodist church for $11 million including renovations, four years later.

After a 17-year legal battle, a court declared a rival congregation the rightful owner of the land under a Christ Apostolic Church in Akim Akroso, Ghana, and ordered the building removed. An excavator pulled it down.

Andrews Memorial Hospital, run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Hope Road, marked 80 years by adding MRI and cardiac catheterisation services and pursuing Joint Commission International accreditation over four to five years.

A $190 million St Andrew apartment complex had its approvals invalidated, then partially restored on appeal. What the case says about the real legal risk in Jamaicas layered permitting process.