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Georgia High Court Will Not Review Ruling Stripping Immunity From K-12 School Leaders

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A Georgia Court of Appeals decision will now stand after the Georgia Supreme Court declined on Tuesday, July 1, to review the case. The ruling has serious implications for the doctrine of official immunity for K-12 employees...more

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Ninth Circuit Narrowly Construes The First Amendment’s Ministerial Exception For Religious Institution Employers

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In Biel v. St. James School, the Ninth Circuit once again split from other circuit courts, this time by narrowly construed an affirmative defense known as the “ministerial exception” that bars claims of...more

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Cue the Organ Music: Court Administers the Ministerial Exception to Music Minister

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Can an organist really be considered a church minister? In a detailed and unique opinion, an Illinois federal court applied the First Amendment’s religious clauses to a church employee who claimed he had been discriminated...more

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