Legal Opinion
Weishuhn v. Catholic Diocese of Lansing
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided May 22, 2008No. Docket 273117PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Per curiam
Defendants Catholic Diocese of Lansing (the Diocese) and St. Mary’s Catholic Church (St. Mary’s) appeal by leave granted the trial court’s order denying their motion for summary disposition in this Civil Rights Act retaliatory-termination case. We vacate and remand for further proceedings.
I. OVERVIEW
This case involves the “ministerial exception.” The ministerial exception is a nonstatutory, constitutionally compelled exception to the application of employment-discrimination and civil rights statutes to religious institutions and their “ministerial” employees. The ministerial exception has its…
2Cases cited45 opinions
- Cantwell v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- City of Boerne v. FloresSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Alyce Conlon v. InterVarsity Christian FellowshipCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2015
- Braverman v. GrangerMichigan Court of Appeals · 2014
- Weishuhn v. LANSING CATHOLIC DIOCESEMichigan Court of Appeals · 2010
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & SchoolDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2008
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