NY: Boiler Plate AG Endorsement of Church Property Sale Found Insufficient

Religion Clause Blog: “A New York trial court has rejected the apparently routine method by which the state Attorney General’s office gives its statutorily required consent to the sale of real property by non-profit religious corporations. The New York Religious Corporations Law, Sec. 12(a)(1), requires religious corporations to obtain court approval for sale, mortgage or lease of real property . . . ”