Showing posts with label Ministerial exception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ministerial exception. Show all posts
Friday, December 12, 2025

Ministerial Exception Bars Former Priest's Title VII Claims

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In Obienu v. Archdiocese of New Orleans ,  (ED LA, Dec. 11, 2025), a Louisiana federal district court held that a former priest's Title ...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Church Autonomy Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Catholic School Employee's Discrimination Claim

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In  MoChridhe v. Academy of Holy Angels , (MN App. Dec. 1, 2025), a Minnesota state appellate court rejected an employment discrimination cl...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Does Not Bar Wage-and-Hour Claim

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In Lorenzo v. San Francisco Zen Center , (CA App., Nov. 21, 2025), a California state appellate court held that neither the ministerial exce...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

9th Circuit: Ministerial Exception Requires Dismissal of Customer Service Representative's Title VII Suit

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In  McMahon v. World Vision, Inc. ,  (9th Cir., Aug. 5, 2025), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the ministerial exception doc...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Challenge to Church's Switch in Denominations Fails

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In Wimber v. Scott , (CA App., July 30, 2025), a California state appellate court held that plaintiffs who were tithing congregants of a Pro...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ministerial Exception Applies to Most Claims by Unitarian Minister

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In Rohde v. Unitarian Universalist Association ,  (ED PA, July 11, 2025), a Pennsylvania federal district court dismissed on ministerial exc...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

6th Circuit: Ministerial Exception Requires Dismissal of Employment Discrimination Suit by Christian School's Principal

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In Pulsifer v. Westshore Christian Academy , (6th Cir., July 9, 2025), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the ministerial excep...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Applies to Title VII Claim of Business Prof at Christian University

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In Schmidt v. University of Northwestern- St. Paul ,  (D MN, June 5, 2025), a Minnesota federal district court held that the ministerial exc...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments Over Religious Exemptions from Washington Antidiscrimination Law

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On June 3, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( video of full arguments ) in U nion Gospel Mission of Yakima Washing...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Sex Discrimination Claim by Pastor Applicant

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In Turman v. Abyssinian Baptist Church , (SD NY, March 31, 2025), a New York federal district court held that the ministerial exception doct...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Missouri Regulation of Church-Run Child Care Homes Upheld

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In CNS International Ministries, Inc. v. Bax ,  (ED MO, March 3, 2025), a Missouri federal district court rejected a series of challenges to...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Title VII Applies to Liberty University's Firing of Transgender Employee

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In Zinski v. Liberty University, Inc. ,  (WD VA, Feb. 21, 2025), a Virginia federal district court refused to dismiss a Title VII sex discri...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

9th Circuit: Ministerial Exception Bars Claim by Mashgiach for Wages and Promotion

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In Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations ,  (9th Cir., Dec. 30, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the minist...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Ministerial Exception Doctrine to Development Director's Suit Against Holocaust Education Organization

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In Lavy v. American Society for Yad Vashem ,  (CD CA, Dec. 19, 2024), a California federal district court refused to find that the ministeri...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Ministerial Exception Is Affirmative Defense, Not Jurisdictional Bar

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In  Matter of Ibhawa v New York State Division of Human Rights , (NY Ct App, Nov. 26, 2024), New York's highest appellate court reversed...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Homeless Shelter Can Limit Hiring to Coreligionists

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In Union Gospel Mission of Yakima, Wash. v. Ferguson ,  (ED WA, Nov. 1, 2024), a Washington federal district court granted a preliminary inj...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Priest's Suit Against Archdiocese

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 In Syring v. Archdiocese of Omaha ,  (NE Sup. Ct., July 26, 2024), the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of defamation, inflictio...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Equally Divided New Jersey Supreme Court Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Jewish School

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 In  Hyman v. Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey ,  (NJ Sup. Ct., July 24, 2024), an equally divided New Jersey Supreme Court decision result...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

9th Circuit: Zen Apprentice's Suit Dismissed Under Ministerial Exception Doctrine

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In Behrend v. San Francisco Zen Center, Inc. , (9th Cir., July 17, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal under...
Thursday, May 09, 2024

4th Circuit: Ministerial Exception Bars Suit by Catholic School Teacher Fired Over Same-Sex Marriage Plans

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In Billard v. Charlotte Catholic High School ,  (4th Cir., May 8, 2024), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Catholic high sch...