9th Circuit Reverses Applying Ministerial Exception In Teacher’s Age Bias Suit

Mealey's (May 9, 2019, 10:48 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A district court erred when it found that a former Catholic school teacher was a “minister” for the purposes of the First Amendment’s “ministerial exception,” a Ninth Circuit panel ruled in an April 30 memorandum, reversing a summary judgment ruling for the school in the teacher’s age discrimination suit (Agnes Deirdre Morrissey-Berru v. Our Lady of Guadalupe School, No. 17-56624, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13031)....