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inlawrev-4073	Gobel, Kyle D.	Holiman v. Dovers: An Argument for a More In-depth Analysis of Religious Disputes	2010	32	.pdf	application/pdf	15766	835	58	[Vol. 43: 1287 ofJune 2008, about 1 00 pending lawsuits involving a national denomination and a local congregation fighting over who owns the church property used by the congregation were making their way through U.S. courts.^ The U.S. Supreme Court has provided two different methods for U.S. courts to use when adjudicating disputes over religious property: The deference approach and the neutral principles of law approach.^ When employing the deference approach, U.S. courts must adjudicate religious property disputes in different ways depending on the type of religious property dispute at issue.^ In some cases, courts must determine the intent of the original property donor, decide which members of the congregation have been faithful to that original intent, and then decide which members have deviated from the religious doctrines that the original donor intended.^ See Jones v. Wolf, 443 U.S. 595, 602-03 (1979) (describing the 'neutral principles of law' approach to adjudicating religious property disputes); Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. 679, 722-27 (1871) (setting out the deference approach to adjudicating religious property disputes).	cache/inlawrev-4073.pdf	txt/inlawrev-4073.txt