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KIRBY v. LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

No. 2012-SC-000519-DG.

426 S.W.3d 597 (2014)

Jimmy KIRBY, Appellant v. LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

April 17, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amos N. Jones , The Amos Jones Law Firm, Douglas Clifton Howard , Howard Law Group, PLLC, for Appellant.

Elizabeth S. Muyskens , Richard Garrett Griffith , Stoll, Keenon & Ogden, PLLC, for Appellee.

Erik W. Stanley , Alliance Defending Freedom, Bryan Howard Beauman , Joshua Michael Salsburey , Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC, for Amicus Curiae, Alliance Defending Freedom and Association of Christian Schools.

Opinion of the Court by Chief Justice MINTON.

The ministerial exception, rooted in the First Amendment's principles of religious freedom, is a well-settled doctrine applicable to employment disputes between religious institutions and employees serving in a ministerial capacity. Recently, in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C.,1 the United States Supreme Court added constitutional imprimatur to the ministerial...

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