RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Brownstein, Alan
2010 4:44 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit I'm not sure why, absent some judgment about the impropriety of the ministerial exemption, one would think that employees and potential employees are somehow

RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Esenberg, Richard
alf Of Rick Garnett Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:49 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit Friends -- with respect to Marci's suggestion that religious entities be required to inform people in minister

Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread masin...@nova.edu
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Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Robert Tuttle
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RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Christopher Lund
...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:45 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit Rick is casting a larger net than my post suggested. The relevant

RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Rick Garnett
edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:45 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit Rick is casting a larger net than my post suggested. The relevant univer

Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Hamilton02
Rick is casting a larger net than my post suggested. The relevant universe here is the universe of employees. As in the speech cases (and in particular the defamation cases since we're dealing with employment), there should be some weighing of interests here. Right now, in my view, the

RE: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-19 Thread Rick Garnett
nethics.net/> From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:44 PM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit Bob makes very goo

Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Tuttle
I don't object to the duty Marci seeks to impose - notice to ministerial employees of their limited right to bring certain kinds of actions against their religious employer. The remedy is the problem - I assumed from Marci's original post that failure to give notice would result in waiver of the mi

Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-16 Thread Hamilton02
Bob makes very good points but I'm not persuaded. Religious employers can be required to report child abuse by their employees, so why can't they be required to provide legal boilerplate to incoming employees? If Bob is right, we have serious problems in my view. The public policy pr

Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Tuttle
Marci's idea of a warning for ministerial employees would certainly be a prudent step for religious employers to take on their own initiative, but I don't think the state could impose such a requirement as a condition of the religious employer invoking the exception in litigation -- the exception s

Re: 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-16 Thread Hamilton02
Joel-- Thanks for sending this along. I had not seen it. Given her position, the 10th Circuit probably got this one correct under standard ministerial exception reasoning. So the question is what to do about the social harm separate from her particular case. I have seen a number of these

10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit

2010-07-16 Thread Joel Sogol
<http://alm-editorial-us.msgfocus.com/c/1v91oFMRsY9j6WpqH> 10th Circuit Finds Church Immune From Workplace Discrimination Suit The National Law Journal An Oklahoma woman who alleged that a Catholic bishop subjected her to "severe and pervasive" gender and age discriminatio