by Jean Marc Favreau | Jul 8, 2020 | Clergy Employment Issues, Employment Law, Ministerial Exception, Supreme Court
In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the ministerial exception permits religiously affiliated schools to fire employees for discriminatory reasons. In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, the Court’s majority held that two Catholic school...
by ADeleon | Jul 3, 2014 | Labor Law, Public Sector Employees, Supreme Court
In Harris v. Quinn, a small group of health care workers sued the governor of Illinois claiming that an agency fee arrangement violated their right to free speech and free association under the First and Fourteenth Amendment. The workers argued that as personal...
