Mealey's (February 5, 2020, 11:24 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit’s decision to impose a new “rigid” ministerial exception test — under which religious functions alone are not enough for the exception to apply — in two cases involving Catholic schools and former teachers can’t be reconciled with Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC, the two schools argue in their petitioner brief filed Feb. 3 in the U.S. Supreme Court (Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru, St. James School v. Darryl Biel, Nos. 19-267 & 19-348, U.S. Sup.)....