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363 U.S. 190 80 Supreme Court Reporter 1037 4 United States Reports Lawyer’s Edition 2d Series KF101.8 U54 1140 Wassil Atlantic KRESHIKv.SAINT NICHOLAS CATHEDRAL. Number 824. Decided June 6, 1960. Messrs. Philip Adler and Eugene Gressman, for petitioners. Ralph Montgomery Arkush Charles or Haw. Hawai‘i KFH45 A2 Tuttle, respondent. PER CURIAM. 1 The motion leave to proceed upon the record in 3, October Term 1952, petition certiorari, are granted. 2 In a prior decision this litigation, we held that right conferred under canon law Archbishop of North American Archdiocese Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, as appointee Patriarch Moscow, use occupancy St. Nicholas Cathedral New York City, owned by respondent corporation, was 'strictly matter ecclesiastical government,' such could not constitutionally be impaired state statute, Religious Corporations Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, chapter 51, Article 5—C, purporting bestow on another. Kedroff versus Cathedral, 344 94, 73 143, 97 L.Ed. 120. We reversed judgment Appeals against petitioners' predecessors office, remanded case 'further action * contravention' our opinion. Id., at page 121, 157. 3 ordered retrial question occupancy, common-law issue assertedly left open invalidation statutory basis former decision. 306 N.Y. 38, 114 Eastern Reporter, 2nd 197. After trial, directed entry petitioners, holding that, reason domination—so found court fact—of secular authority U.S.S.R., his common validly exercise occupy Cathedral. 7 N.Y.2d 191, 196 N.Y.S.2d 655, 164 687. As opinions make evident, compare 302 1, pages 29—33, 96 56, 72—74, with 209—216, 667—673, 696—700, now review rests same premises which were have underlain enactment statute struck down Kedroff. 117—118, 155. But it is established doctrine '(i)t moment State has here acted solely through its judicial branch, whether legislative judicial, still application power asked scrutinize.' N.A.A.C.P. Alabama, 357 449, 463, 78 116o, 1172, 1488. See Shelley Kraemer, 334 14—16, 68 836, 842—843, 92 1161, cases there cited. Accordingly, ruling controlling here, requires dismissal complaint. 5 Reversed.

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