Supreme Court Extends ‘Ministerial Exception’ To Cover More Teachers at Religious Schools
Court says 9th Circuit improperly treated prior criteria as checklist to determine whether courts could hear claims of discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the scope of the “ministerial exception” that prohibits courts from hearing claims of employment discrimination brought by teachers at religious schools. It has reversed and remanded two separate cases from the 9th Circuit, in which the Court of Appeals had reversed trial court summary judgments in favor of the schools and held that the teachers did not meet the criteria for being a “minister” previously established by the Court.
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