Ave Maria Law School invokes ministerial exception in wrongful termination suit

[Douglas Laycock]

Similar arguments were made early on in EEOC v. Mississippi College, 626 F.2d 477, 484-85 (5th Cir. 1980).  No ministerial exception because "the College is not a church and its faculty members are not ministers."  Professors of theology and seminary faculty are within the ministerial exception.  EEOC v. Catholic University (D.C. Cir 1996) and EEOC v. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (5th Cir. 1981 or so).  Faculty in secular subjects have been held outside it, and it is hard to see how law professors would be any different.  

Quoting Ed Brayton <stcynic at gmail.com>:

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Douglas Laycock
Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
625 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1215
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