The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 5, 2011
Washington
The U.S. Supreme Court briefly weighed how its recognition of a "ministerial exception" to federal civil-rights laws would affect colleges as it heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case involving a teacher who alleged discrimination after being fired by a now-defunct religious elementary school.
In an exchange with Leondra R. Kruger, a U.S. Justice Department lawyer representing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. invoked a case in which a nun at a Roman Catholic university had alleged gender discrimination after being denied tenure.
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