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: ACS Blog2nd Circuit Adopts Ministerial Exception
The Second Circuit formally adopted the “ministerial exception” to Title VII, holding that civil rights laws cannot govern church employment relationships with ministers without violating the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. The court unanimously dismissed a lawsuit brought by an African-American Catholic priest against his Bishop and Diocese claiming that canon law had been misapplied for racially motivated reasons.
Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 01, 1970 (boomark / email).
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