Guy Demarco v. Holy Cross High School

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that applying the ADEA to a math teacher at a religious high school would not result in excessive entanglement under the Establishment Clause
• holding that the ministerial exception did not apply to a lay teacher who brought an ADEA action against a parochial school even though the teacher performed some religious duties, including leading his students in prayers and taking them to Mass
• noting that the pretext inquiry considers “whether the putative non-discriminatory purpose was stated only after the allegation of discrimination”
• “A fact-finder will necessarily have to presume that an asserted religious motive is plausible in the sense that it is reasonably or validly held.”
• because Title VII applies to religious institutions and ADEA is modeled on Title VII, Congress intended ADEA to apply to religious institutions
• sole question in ADEA case is whether plaintiff was unjustifiably treated differently because of age

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).