Alicea v. New Brunswick Theological Seminary

How courts have described this case

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• affirming determination to abstain from decision in a suit for denial of tenure because position required exercise of \ministerial\ functions
• \[W]e refuse to adopt a per se rule that courts may not entertain\ suits by ministers against churches. However, \there are many cases in which court intervention is simply inappropriate\ under the First Amendment.
• seminary’s associate professor of theology performed ministerial function

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