Religious Liberty

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

On January 11, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in the most important religious freedom case to come before the Court in decades. In Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the Court for the first time reviewed "ministerial exception," a First Amendment doctrine which all U.S. Circuit courts had used to exempt churches from discrimination claims brought by their employees, but which had never been affirmed by the Supreme Court. In Hosanna-Tabor the Court not only affirmed the doctrine in the strongest terms, but it did so unanimously.

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