"This positive decision is a win and provides great relief for our group. Two motions (the Bishop's demurrer and Save's motion to compel the Bishop to respond in deposition) were continued until the end of February. The final motion, an attempt to quickly settle one element of the Bishop's lawsuit against Griffith (the donor) was denied," say the defendants.

A jury trial is set to begin August 1st.

Jenkins, an Episcopalian, was one of seven speakers presenting at the annual Mere Anglicanism Conference January 28-30 at the Charleston Music Hall in Charleston, South Carolina. Mere Anglicanism is the kind of rare event that attracts a cross-section of participants from both the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in North America, as well as overseas Anglicans and the local Diocese of South Carolina.

Eventually the courts ruled that St. James was legally the property of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and the multimillion dollar church property was turned over to Bishop Bruno as a corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He assigned Canon Evans Voorhees to the re-established church and to rebuild the congregation. She took her assignment to heart and went about developing a strong Episcopal presence in Newport Beach.

Instead, the headmaster concluded that the employee "did not engage in sexual misconduct" and allowed him to return to work the next school year. Richards, now headmaster at another private school, said Peterson told him that "outside counsel" had advised him that reporting the matter to authorities was not warranted.