Supreme Court gives religious schools greater freedom to fire teachers
employment discrimination cases
, 5th-grade teacher Kristen Biel was let go from St. James Catholic School after developing breast cancer and seeking medical leave to undergo chemotherapy. She sued successfully under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the school appealed. Biel lost her battle with the disease last year, leaving her husband Darryl to carry on her challenge.
The other teacher, Agnes Morrissey-Berru, who is not a practicing Catholic, taught for 16 years at Our Lady of Guadalupe School but was let go, the school said, based on her performance. She claimed age discrimination. The schools relied on the Supreme Court's 2012 ruling, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled the teachers deserved their day in court. The Trump administration took the schools' side., both conservative and liberal justices expressed concern about drawing lines among job descriptions.
“Doesn’t that create just exactly the sort of entanglement problems that we’ve tried to avoid elsewhere?”
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