- January 26th, 2023, 8:11 am
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-lab ... ias-shield
This is the first time I've heard about this one. Apparently it all started in 2018.
This is the first time I've heard about this one. Apparently it all started in 2018.
Liberty University will try to convince a federal appeals court in Richmond that it’s immune to a former studio art professor’s age bias lawsuit, in a case testing the US Supreme Court’s doctrine shielding religious employers from anti-discrimination laws.
Liberty University Inc. is slated for oral argument Thursday at the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to challenge a district judge’s decision that Eva Palmer didn’t qualify as a “minister,” which permitted her to sue the Baptist university for not renewing her teaching contract allegedly due to age discrimination.
Ruling that Palmer was a minister because Liberty required her to integrate a Christian worldview into her studio art classes “would be a significant expansion of the conception of the ministerial exception,” US District Judge Norman Moon said in the 2021 opinion that Liberty is appealing.