Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett thinks that Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC is the most important religious-freedom case before the Supreme Court in 20 years.
At issue is whether or not antidiscrimination laws allow the courts to review hiring-and-firing decisions made by parochial schools with respect to teachers who teach primarily secular subjects. Given the subject matter of their teaching, a lower court has ruled that such teachers are not "ministerial employees."
HT: Joe Carter
Published on March 28, 2011 10:47