Employee, Estate Oppose Schools’ High Court Ministerial Exception Petitions

Mealey's (November 25, 2019, 12:42 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former Catholic school teacher and the estate of a former teacher employed by a different Catholic school recently filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the schools’ separate petitions, one filed by St. James School and one filed by Our Lady of Guadalupe School, seeking clarification of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s “ministerial exception” as applied to age and disability bias lawsuits (St. James School v. Darryl Biel, No. 19-348; Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru, No. 19-267, U.S. Sup.)....