Posted On: June 17, 2008 by Schwartz & Perry

Balancing Act Between Religious Policy and Administration Appears Before Florida Supreme Court

A recent whistleblower case involving the firing of a Catholic school’s principal is set to appear before the Florida Supreme Court, according to a June 16 Daily Business Review article. The case, previously tossed out of the third District Court of Appeals, pits a plaintiff who claims she was wrongly forced out of her job as a principal at a Catholic school in Miami after complaining that her supervisor assaulted her against the Archdiocese of Miami.

The two sides differ on their interpretation of the Church’s domain. The plaintiff believes that she was fired for a purely secular reason; the archdiocese believes the case lies within the Church’s jurisdiction and therefore not subject to the courts’ ruling.