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DeMarco v. Holy Cross High School

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discretion of the employer. Upon completing his first five-year term of service, DeMarco was advised that a contract renewal would not be offered to him, and he left the employment of the school. He then sued under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act alleging his age played a role in the school's decision, which the school denied.
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as a math instructor starting in 1985. Although he was a lay instructor, he also led the class in morning prayer and took the students to mass. Under the terms of his contract of employment, his employment was to last five years with the option to extend that employment in five-year increments at the
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Although the central holding of this case is still valid, other courts have either declined to follow or declined to extend the ruling to employees of church-based organizations whose positions are "ministerial" or "ecclesiastical" in nature. The determination of whether a position is ministerial in
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The court noted that other anti-discrimination statutes were held to be applicable to religious organizations, except for statutes that prohibited discrimination based on religious belief. Since statutes prohibiting discrimination by race, gender and national origin were already found applicable to
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The ministerial exception applies primarily to members of the clergy. The court finds that there is a pervasive religious relationship between members of the clergy and their employers (the church). In this case, the religious duties that were alleged to have been violated were easily isolated and
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The trial disputed whether the ADEA applies to religious schools. The answer came back as conditional: ADEA can only apply to an employment action that was taken based on a claim of religious doctrine or tenet if the plaintiff does not challenge the validity of the doctrine or tenet and only asks
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religious organizations, it was logical (and a reasonable interpretation of the legislative history) to extend the prohibition against age discrimination to religious organizations as well.
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Courts have long recognized a distinction between ongoing governmental supervision of all aspects of employment, such as would be required under labor statutes like the
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at the age of forty-nine. Holy Cross High School argued that it was not subject to ADEA laws and that if it were, this case against it violated the
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defined. As a result of this, the district could separate such duties from the age discrimination allegation for fact-finding purposes.
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would be appropriate, because enforcement of labor statutes against religious organizations was unconstitutional under the
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of the First Amendment. The school also argued that DeMarco had failed to utilize the administrative remedies available.
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nature looks almost exclusively at the amount of time that an employee spends on religion-oriented tasks.
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shifts to the employer to establish a non-discriminatory purpose for the challenged employment action.
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The decision of the district court was reversed, and the case was remanded for further proceedings.
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whether the doctrine or tenet actually motivated the challenged employment action.
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The decision of the district court was appealed, resulting in this decision.
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DeMarco v. Holy Cross High School, 797 F.Supp. 1142, 1151-52 (E.D.N.Y.1992)
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4 F.3d 166 (2nd Cir. 1993) was a discrimination case brought under the
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
John M. Walker, Jr.
Joseph M. McLaughlin
Thomas P. Griesa
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
appellant
tenure
Free Exercise Clause
Establishment Clause
Holy Cross High School (Queens)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
age discrimination
motion
summary judgment
summary judgment
establishment clause
First Amendment
summary judgment
prima facie
discrimination
burden of proof
National Labor Relations Act
Geary v. Visitation of Blessed Virgin Mary School
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