Amicus Briefs in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC

The briefs for both sides in the upcoming Supreme Court term's ministerial exception case, Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, have now been filed and are available at SCOTUSblog. Now, I happen to believe that the First Amendment and the last 900 years of political theory in the West require a robust form of the ministerial exception, but I could be wrong. The parties have filed a set of briefs from Doug Laycock (counsel for the petitioner), O'Melveny & Myers (for the employee), and the Solicitor General. The highlights among the amicus briefs (and here I'm picking and choosing from, by my count, 29 briefs--20 for petitioner and nine for the respondent) include a brief from our own Tom Berg and Rick Garnett; a brief for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Episcopal Church, the LDS Church, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations from my former colleagues at Williams & Connolly; a brief for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod from Christopher Lund (who also has a forthcoming article on the ministerial exception); a brief from Michael McConnell for a consortium of Protestant churches; and a brief against the ministerial exception from Leslie Griffin and Caroline Corbin. Happy reading.