U.S. Supreme Court Finds Teacher Covered Under Ministerial Exception

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A teacher who taught a religious class, led worship and led prayer was a commissioned minister, and her employment falls within the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s ministerial exception, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Jan. 11, reversing a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling (Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al., No. 10-553, U.S. Sup.).

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