Ministerial Exception

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Essay
Clarifying and Reframing the “Ministerial Exception”
Tyler B. Lindley
B.S. 2018, Brigham Young University; J.D. Candidate 2021, The University of Chicago Law School.

For helpful feedback and discussion, I thank Geoffrey Stone, Douglas Baird, Rob Barthelmess, Jonathan Acevedo, Addison Bennett, Parag Dharmavarapu, and The University of Chicago Law Review. I would also like to thank my wife, Katrina Lindley, for her indispensable discussion and support.

This term, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear and consider Kristin Biel’s case.