religious-institution
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-807 | Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Waived | church-autonomy civil-law-claims internal-affairs ministerial-exception religious-institution self-governance | Does the church autonomy doctrine apply to, and foreclose, civil law claims which are not disputes about the internal affairs or self-governance of a … |
| 24-530 | Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. | California | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Amici (13) | board-membership church-state-separation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-institution religious-qualifications | Does the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine bar courts from adjudicating the religious qualifications of the leaders of a religious institution? |
| 18-245 | Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii | Whether the ministerial exception applies to an avowedly secular hospital that employs an ecumenical chaplain | |
| 18-125 | Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine | Does the definition of 'religious institution' in the ministerial exception require a faith-based institution with a hierarchy of ministers? |