Wasn’t there a Methodist Conference that overturned Discipline meted out to a pastor that performed a gay “marriage?” If I recall correctly, the pastor was removed, appealed to the Conference and the Conference had him reinstated. It might have been out east in Pennsylvania?
It was a judicial council, part of the UMC legal structure. It was due to a technicality of some sort. Part of the problem is that UMC liberals are experts at exploiting the system. Another complication is that there is no meaningful accountability for bishops.