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133160P.pdf   01/13/2015  Hutterville Hutterian Brethren  v.  Jeffrey Sveen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-3160
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Aberdeen   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case. In this dispute over control of the Hutterville Hutterian 
   Brethern, Inc., a South Dakota religious nonprofit corporation, the key 
   issue is who rightly controls Hutterville, a question which cannot be 
   answered without determining issues such as church membership, the 
   validity of excommunications and the proper designation of the "true 
   Schmiedeleut," all of which are questions impermissible for secular 
   courts; having argued to the South Dakota Supreme Court that the issues 
   were church governance issues not subject to resolution in secular courts, 
   plaintiffs may not now argue that the issues are subject to resolution in 
   federal court.