California Catholic school can be sued for firing teacher with breast cancer
by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
Jan 07, 2019
4 minutes
In the spring of 2014, Kristen Biel had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and needed time off from her teaching job at St. James Catholic School in Torrance for a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
She asked the school's principal, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, for a leave of absence during the upcoming fall semester. A few weeks later, she was fired, according to court documents.
Now, Biel can sue the school in federal court for discrimination - a right she was granted last month when an appeals court overturned a lower court decision ruling that Biel was effectively a minister and, therefore, constitutionally barred
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