US Supreme Court agrees to decide how much protection religious institutions have from lawsuits filed by employees who are fired.
If the appeals court rulings in these two cases are allowed to stand, lawyers for schools told the Supreme Court, it would open religious institutions to lawsuits that the high court's 2012 decision did not intend to permit.
"Getting it right is crucial in protecting church-state relations," they said in their written brief asking the court to take the cases.Pete Williams Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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