Pime v. Loyola University of Chicago

FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellant Jerrold S. Pime brought suit against Loyola University of Chicago under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a), for religious discrimination in the hiring of tenure track professors in Loyola’s College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy. The Department of Philosophy had passed a resolution reserving the next three vacancies in tenure track teaching positions for Jesuits, members of the Society of Jesus.

Loyola asserted two affirmative defenses. First, it claimed that it could require its employees to be Jesuits…