As recently reflected by the Fourth Circuit’s opinion in Billard v. Charlotte Catholic High School, Title VII has a notable ministerial exception that religiously affiliated entities such as private ...
On July 9, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit sitting en banc overturned a split panel decision in the case, Sandor Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish et al., and issued a ...
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Last week, my colleague Peter Feuerherd published an article about Katie Boller Gosewisch, a woman in Minnesota who resigned "under pressure" from her job as a director of faith formation at her ...
Closing the courthouse door much of the way, but not completely, to workplace bias lawsuits by church employees who act as ministers to their denominations, the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard two cases that both relate to the ministerial exception, the idea that certain employees of religious organizations have no right to sue their employers for ...
Courts can generally hear clergy contract disputes because these are civil, secular agreements. The Ministerial Exception mainly protects churches from interfering in spiritual matters, not secular ...
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