Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court upholds ministerial exception for Christian school teachers

The ruling in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC.

“Today the Court holds only that the ministerial exception bars an employment discrimination suit brought on behalf of a minister, challenging her church’s decision to fire her. The Court expresses no view on whether the exception bars other types of suits.”

Amy at SCOTUS LIVE Blog: The Court says that the ministerial exception is not limited to the head of a church, but in fact does reach down to employees who qualify as “ministers”; in this case, the school at issue did regard Ms. Perich as a “minister.”

Becket Fund: Supreme Court Sides with Church in Landmark First Amendment Ruling
Today the Supreme Court decided its most important religious liberty case in twenty years, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The government lost 9-nothing as the Court unanimously rejected its narrow view of religious liberty as “extreme,” “untenable” and “remarkable.”

Thomas Messner at the Heritage Foundation Foundry Blog: Supreme Court Decision in Hosanna-Tabor a Major Win for Religious Freedom

SCOTUS Blog: Case information and documents page.

Religion Clause Blog: Supreme Court Upholds Ministerial Exception To Bar Teacher’s ADA Claim

AP: Court:Judges cannot get involved in church dispute

Fox News: Supreme Court sides with church on decision to fire employee on religious grounds

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