Welter v. Seton Hall University

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that courts should refuse to enforce secular rights “when the underlying dispute turns on doctrine or polity”
• permitting civil adjudication of suit by nuns against Catholic university because the nuns' breach of contract action did not arise out of their performance of ministerial duties and they did not contemplate that religious canons would govern their suit
• nuns performing non-ministerial functions for university

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).