religious-institution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-807 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived church-autonomy civil-law-claims internal-affairs ministerial-exception religious-institution self-governance Does the church autonomy doctrine apply to, and foreclose, civil law claims which are not disputes about the internal affairs or self-governance of a …
24-530 Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. California 2024-11-12 Denied Amici (13) board-membership church-state-separation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-institution religious-qualifications Bethesda University is a Pentecostal institution that requires its Board members to share its religious faith and to act consistently with its Penteco…
18-245 Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii Since Hosanna-Tabor did not address how to decide if an employer is "religious," should the Court review this case and define the proper analysis in d…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of "religious institution" in the two prong test for "ministerial exception" in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sch.…