Christian School’s Suit Over Hiring Probe Partially Revived

The Ninth Circuit on Friday brought back some of Seattle Pacific University’s lawsuit challenging an inquiry by the Washington attorney general into the school’s policy of hiring predominantly employees who share or honor its faith mission.

The 2022 case against state Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) under the First Amendment shouldn’t have been dismissed entirely for lack of standing to sue, the appeals court said.

SPU put forth enough to show that it intends to continue employment practices that are arguably proscribed by the Washington Law Against Discrimination, Ferguson hasn’t disavowed the possibility of enforcing the law against it, and ...