Van Scoyk v. St. Mary's Assumption Parochial School

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

This is a civil rights action involving alleged religious discrimination. The trial court sustained motions to dismiss, filed by the defendants, St. Mary’s Assumption Parochial School and the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights. Plaintiffs appeal.

Plaintiffs, Gwynne Van Scoyk and Kay Wiley, were elementary school teachers for two years at St. Mary’s Assumption Parochial School in Derby, Kansas. Before the fifteenth day of March of their second year, Father Watson, the administrative head of the school, informed the plaintiffs that neither of…