Holding: The Supreme Court will hear a case involving whether churches can discriminate when making employment decisions about employees who are not clergy, specifically regarding whether they can hire and fire teachers on grounds that would otherwise be discriminatory.
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Church Employment Discrimination Case (Ministerial Exception) is a Education case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. The court held that the Supreme Court will hear a case involving whether churches can discriminate when making employment decisions about employees who are not clergy, specifically regarding whether they can hire and fire teachers on grounds that would otherwise be discriminatory. The case resulted in a Pending outcome.