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Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church v. EEOC: Supreme Court Confirms Ministerial Exception to Employment
The Supreme Court recently confirmed the applicability of the ministerial exception found under the First Amendment in precluding the application of employment discrimination laws to ministers. In Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church and School v. EEOC, 132 S.Ct. 694 (2012), the Supreme Court used the ministerial exception to preclude a minister’s claim…
Posted:
02/27/2012
02/27/2012
Commentaries
Employment Law
Employment Law
In a case of first impression, the Sixth Circuit has ruled that a grade school teacher at a religious school who taught primarily secular topics falls outside of the “ministerial exception” to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). In EEOC v. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, ____ F.3d _____,…
Posted:
04/16/2010
04/16/2010
Summaries
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New Settlements and Verdicts
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New Settlements and Verdicts
The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that 19 female employees, several of whom were teenagers at the time, were subjected to repeated and sometimes severe sexual harassment by the company’s senior officers across multiple stores in the Reno area. The EEOC further asserted that Scolari’s senior officers and managers inappropriately…
Date of ruling:
09/5/2008
09/5/2008
Commentaries
Employment Law
Employment Law
In EEOC v. Watkins Motor Lines Inc., 553 F.3d 593 (7th Cir. 2009), the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision and held that a charging party’s attempt to withdraw a claim he filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) did not end the EEOC’s…
Posted:
04/29/2009
04/29/2009
Summaries
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
The suit arose from a charge filed by Samuel Chetcuti, a storekeeper working for UAI at the San Francisco International Airport. The EEOC’s suit asserted that UAI ’s policy of denying the opportunity to work overtime to anyone placed on light or limited duty had greater repercussions for employees with…
Date of ruling:
03/17/2009
03/17/2009
Summaries
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
This suit is an action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 seeking to correct unlawful employment practices that discriminated on the basis of gender and race, and to provide appropriate relief to Bell, and a class…
Date of ruling:
02/11/2009
02/11/2009
Summaries
Employment Law >
New Judicial Opinions
Employment Law >
New Judicial Opinions
EEOC alleged in this suit that Autozone violated certain rights of an Autozone employee, John Shepherd, arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). Shepherd himself is not a party to this suit. Autozone argued in its motion that it should be allowed to amend its affirmative defenses to raise…
Date of ruling:
02/24/2009
02/24/2009
Summaries
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
The complaint alleged that in or around December 2004 and continuing until her termination in 2005, Singh was subjected to repeated racial harassment by her supervisor. Among the statements that Singh heard were, “Don’t speak to me, nigger” and “we will get rid of all the niggers and begin with…
Date of ruling:
02/10/2009
02/10/2009
Summaries
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
Plaintiff EEOC filed this suit against defendants BVP, LLC and NFAC, Inc. (“defendants”), alleging that defendants violated Section 703(a)(1) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. §2000e-2(a)(1), by discriminating against a class of women on the basis of sex and by…
Date of ruling:
02/26/2009
02/26/2009
Summaries
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
Employment Law >
New Settlements and Verdicts
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), the plaintiff in both cases, claimed that both companies violated the religious discrimination prohibition of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The decrees in both cases prohibit retaliation by the employers and provide for training and reporting to the EEOC.…
Date of ruling:
11/12/2008
11/12/2008
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