Seeking to Avoid Termination Suit, Catholic Law School Claims Professors Are Ministers

[Joel Sogol]

 <http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/19Fc1dcE5YMNYTfay> Seeking to Avoid
Termination Suit, Catholic Law School Claims Professors Are Ministers
The National Law Journal

Are Catholic law school professors really ministers? A Michigan trial judge
will decide that next week in a controversial employment dispute involving
Ave Maria School of Law, which is trying to declare law professors as
ministers to avoid a wrongful termination suit filed by three former
professors. The school's founder and financier filed a motion claiming that
the professors are "ministerial," and that the school is a religious
institution and therefore immune from court interference into its
administrative matters.



 

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