September 22, 2006
Federal Appeal Yields Win for Gannon U.
An opinion issued by a federal appeals court in May had been expected to set up a challenge to a longstanding principle that courts do not interfere with a religious entity's choices about who oversees spiritual duties. But the court reversed course this month, and issued a new opinion that effectively ended the possible confrontation.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed in 2004 by Lynette M. Petruska, who had been the first female chaplain at Gannon University, a Roman Catholic
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