The church sued the university in 2019 after SMU's board of trustees voted to split from the church without approval from the ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas tried to declare its independence after the church voted to ban gay weddings and ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the United Methodist Church are set to deliver oral arguments in the Texas ...

Southern Methodist University is set to appear in the Texas Supreme Court in a bid to separate from the United Methodist Church.

The Texas Supreme Court set oral arguments in the case of SMU and the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional ...

In layman's terms, the fight is over who owns the nonprofit private university and has the authority to set its rules.

Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of Gov. Greg Abbott, has been named the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme ...

Abbott appointed Justice Jimmy Blacklock to serve as chief justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, the governor's office ...

The Texas Supreme Court is weighing three landmark cases concerning conflicts between the state and religious freedom, and ...

Paxton appealed a federal court ruling blocking the voter ID law in August 2017, the same month he asked the U.S. Supreme ...

After a four-month search, SMU announced Jay Hartzell received unanimous approval from the board of trustees to be the ...