July 14, 2023
A Seventh Circuit panel concluded that the "ministerial exception" blocks a discrimination case filed by a former Catholic school guidance counselor who was fired for being in a same-sex relationship, marking the latest LGBTQ bias case that the circuit found was doomed by this carveout.
June 02, 2023
The majority of a Seventh Circuit panel seemed ready Friday to block a discrimination case filed by a former Catholic school guidance counselor who was fired because she's married to a woman, mirroring the fate of another gay educator's bias case that the court downed a year ago.
May 31, 2023
The Ninth Circuit will consider whether California can muscle in on an EEOC sex discrimination suit against Activision Blizzard, while the Second Circuit weighs an MLB umpire's race bias suit and the Seventh Circuit mulls the scope of a religious exemption to anti-discrimination law. Here, Law360 previews three appellate argument sessions discrimination lawyers should watch in June.
February 02, 2023
The American Civil Liberties Union advised the Seventh Circuit to revive a lawsuit by a former Catholic high school counselor in Indiana who alleged she was fired for being in a same-sex marriage, saying Thursday that a ministerial carveout in federal civil rights law only protects religious organizations from religious bias-related claims.
January 27, 2023
A former high school counselor in Indiana asked the Seventh Circuit to take a second look at a district court's decision to nix her anti-LGBTQ discrimination suit over her firing by a Catholic archdiocese, arguing her case does not fall under the "ministerial exception" because she held a secular job.