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BOLLARD v. CALIFORNIA PROVINCE OF SOC. OF JESUS

No. 98-16194.

196 F.3d 940 (1999)

John BOLLARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE CALIFORNIA PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS; The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus; The Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus; The Jesuit Conference; Father John Privett, S.J.; Father Andrew Sotelo, S.J.; Father Thomas Gleeson, S.J.; Father Anton Harris, S.J., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Wagstaffe and Andrew I. Dilworth, Kerr & Wagstaffe, LLP, Mary Patricia Hough, Moss & Hough, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Paul E. Gaspari and Lawrence R. Jannuzzi, Tobin & Tobin, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees the California Province of the Society of Jesus, the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, Father John Privett, S.J., and the Jesuit Conference.

Deborah K. Miller, Landels Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco, California; Jeremiah C. Collins, Paul A. Murphy and Robert A. Van Kirk, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus and Father Thomas Gleeson, S.J.

Michael J. Estep, Greene, Chauvel, Descalso & Tully, San Mateo, California, for defendant-appellee Father Andrew Sotelo, S.J.

William F. Terheyden, Littler Mendelson, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee Father Anton Harris, S.J.

Before: DAVID R. THOMPSON and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and SUSAN OKI MOLLWAY, District Judge.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

We must decide in this case whether the so-called "ministerial exception" to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars plaintiff John Bollard's claim of sexual harassment against the Jesuit order. Simply stated, the ministerial exception insulates a religious organization's employment decisions regarding its ministers from judicial scrutiny under Title VII. The Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment compel this...

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