By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent: N.Y. court to rule on dispute between warring Chabad wings
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Name:gordon
City: VancouverState: Canada
You need to read the article. It will make your posts more relevant.

The Court did not decide any religious issues.

They said - whoever owns the property is entitled to decide who goes there and what they can do there.

That is basic law. If a group of Christians attacked and occupied a synagogue, or your house/flat, the police would expel them and the Courts would imprison them - not for being Christians, and not because Judaism is "the true religion", but simply because they are trespassers since they do not own the building.

So the only question for the Court to decide was a totally non-religious one: who owned the building?

The court decided that it was group X. That was the end of the matter. Group X therefore had the legal right to say who could enter and what they could do - not because group X was "right" but because group X owned the property, and group X said - not this messianic activity.

No religious questions came up, and none were answered.