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Los Angeles diocese prevails again in parish property dispute
{Diocese of Los Angeles via ENS] A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled July 3 that the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles are entitled to the property of St. Luke's of the Mountains Parish in La Crescenta, California. The decision comes on the heels of the landmark opinion last week from the California Court of Appeal which unanimously upheld claims by the Diocese of Los Angeles and the national office of the Episcopal Church to the property of three separate parishes whose leaders and members left the Episcopal Church in 2004.