Matter of People v. New York State Dept. of Corr. & Community Supervision

How courts have described this case

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• noting that other federal Circuits \have considered a particular employee to be a 'minister' for purposes of the ministerial exception based on the function of the plaintiff's employment position rather than the fact of ordination.\
• “In order for the ministerial exception to bar an employment discrimination claim, the employer must be a religious institution and the employee must have been a ministerial employee.”
• “We agree with this extension of the rule beyond its application to ordained ministers and hold that it applies to the plaintiff in this case, given the pastoral role she filled at the hospital.”
• treating the exception as jurisdic- tional
• treating the exception as jurisdictional
• referring to function as the “general rule”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).