Posted on 05/04/2021 5:59:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
In Simon v. Saint Dominic Academy, (D NJ, April 28, 2021), a New Jersey federal district court applied the ministerial exception doctrine as defined in recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent to dismiss statutory and contract-based claims by the former Chairperson of the Religious Department and Campus Minister at a women's Catholic high school. Plaintiff was terminated the day after she returned from a leave due to a motor vehicle accident. She contends that she was dismissed because of her age, disability, and whistleblowing activities. The court said in part:
Plaintiff pleads that she was replaced by a younger individual who was not qualified to teach religion.... Plaintiff’s allegations ... will require the Court to second guess SDA’s decision to terminate a minister, which is precisely what the ministerial exception is intended to prohibit and will necessarily entangle the Court in internal church governance.
Those St. Dominic girls on the boulevard in JC back in the day...watch out!
I am glad you clarified this is Saint Dominic’s Academy in Jersey City; I am an alumna of the similar named school in Caldwell.
SDA is an “educational organization” in Jersey City and “is an asset of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell” and “operates under the auspices of the Archiocese of Newark
I guess the two are affiliated.
Yes. Mount Saint Dominic Academy is in Caldwell and Saint Dominic Academy is in Jersey City. Both are all girls high schools. The Mother House is in Caldwell at Caldwell University.
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