Mealey's (May 3, 2023, 1:04 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bishop who sued officials and entities affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) alleging defamation filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing ROCOR’s petition for a writ of certiorari that seeks review of the church autonomy doctrine and ministerial exception and arguing that there is nothing “worthy of review” as the underlying opinion was only the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declining to expand Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Local Corporation to review three “‘premature’ rulings.”...