Thursday, October 6, 2011

Supreme Court Weighs How 'Ministerial Exception' to Rights Laws Affects Colleges

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.

Full Story: http://chronicle.com/article/Supreme-Court-Weighs-How/129286/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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