Overview
- Gateway Church and founder Robert Morris ended their public court battle by dismissing the Tarrant County case without prejudice and will now resolve the dispute in private arbitration, according to Morris’s attorney.
- The dismissal filing did not say whether Morris or his wife, Debbie, will receive any payment, and it states each side will cover its own expenses.
- Morris sued in May 2025 after resigning in 2024, claiming more than $1 million in his retirement account and asserting elders verbally promised $800,000 per year until age 70, then $600,000 annually for life or for his wife.
- The move to arbitration came less than two months after Morris finished a six-month jail sentence in Oklahoma for sexually abusing Cindy Clemishire, who said the abuse began when she was 12 in the 1980s.
- Other cases remain active, including a Dallas defamation suit by Clemishire and her father now on appeal, a federal lawsuit from the church’s insurer, and a class-action by former members over alleged missing donations that the church denies.