Legal Opinion
Combs v. Central Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 14, 1999No. 98-10193PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:
Reverend Pamela Combs appeals the dismissal of her Title VII sex and pregnancy discrimination suit against the First United Methodist Church of Hurst (“First United”) and the Central Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church (“Central Texas Conference”). The sole question presented in this appeal is whether the district court correctly determined that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment precluded it from considering Reverend Combs’s employment discrimination case. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the district court was…
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