Elmora Hebrew Center, Inc. v. Fishman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that rabbi's contract, or non-religious condition of employment, could be determined by civil court, in contrast to scope of his duties which had to be decided by a religious authority
• holding that rabbi’s contract, or non-religious condition of employment, could be determined by civil court, in contrast to scope of his duties which had to be decided by a religious authority
• stating that a court may resolve a dispute involving an ecclesiastical body by applying neutral, but not religious, principles
• finding that the First Amendment does not permit civil courts to decide religious doctrine
• stating “religious parties or institutions are not ... less entitled to civil adjudication of secular legal questions”
• stating \religious parties or institutions are not ... less entitled to civil adjudication of secular legal questions\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).