Case Name: Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America, Appellant, v. John Kedroff and Benjamin Fedchenkoff, as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1951-03-09
Citations: 302 N.Y. 689
Docket Number: 
Parties: Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America, Appellant, v. John Kedroff and Benjamin Fedchenkoff, as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 302
Pages: 689–690

Head Matter:
Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America, Appellant, v. John Kedroff and Benjamin Fedchenkoff, as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, Respondents.
Submitted January 15, 1951;
decided March 9, 1951.

Opinion:
Motion for reargument denied. Motion to amend the remittitur granted. Return of remittitur requested and, when returned, it will be amended by adding thereto the following: Upon this appeal there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of the United States, viz. : whether article 5-C of the Religious Corporations Law, as construed by this court, violated any rights of the defendants guaranteed by the First and the Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. This court held that the aforesaid statute did not violate any of the rights of the defendants guaranteed by those amendments to the Constitution of the United States. [See 302 N. Y. 1.]