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SCOTUSblog analysis: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees
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First, there was a synposium on the afternoon of June 15. You might be able to follow that on a podcast.
Were hosting a symposium on the courts ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County and Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. Click to follow along with the submissions.
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Amy Howe Independent Contractor and Reporter
Posted Mon, June 15th, 2020 12:28 pm
Opinion analysis: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees (Updated)
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination because of sex.
Today the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, ruled that even if Congress may not have had discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status in mind when it enacted the landmark law over a half century ago, Title VIIs ban on discrimination protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees. Because fewer than half of the 50 states currently ban employment discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, todays decision is a major victory for LGBT employees.
The question came to the court in three different cases, all argued on the same day last October. Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor, and Gerald Bostock, a child-welfare-services coordinator for Clayton County, Georgia, filed lawsuits in federal court alleging that they were fired because they were gay, which violated Title VII. In Zardas case, which was continued by his estate after he died in a base-jumping accident in 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit agreed with Zarda that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit came to the opposite conclusion in Bostocks case.
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Recommended Citation: Amy Howe, Opinion analysis: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees (Updated), SCOTUSblog (Jun. 15, 2020, 12:28 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/opinion-analysis-federal-employment-discrimination-law-protects-gay-and-transgender-employees/
Posted Mon, June 15th, 2020 12:28 pm
Opinion analysis: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees (Updated)
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination because of sex.
Today the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, ruled that even if Congress may not have had discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status in mind when it enacted the landmark law over a half century ago, Title VIIs ban on discrimination protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees. Because fewer than half of the 50 states currently ban employment discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, todays decision is a major victory for LGBT employees.
The question came to the court in three different cases, all argued on the same day last October. Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor, and Gerald Bostock, a child-welfare-services coordinator for Clayton County, Georgia, filed lawsuits in federal court alleging that they were fired because they were gay, which violated Title VII. In Zardas case, which was continued by his estate after he died in a base-jumping accident in 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit agreed with Zarda that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit came to the opposite conclusion in Bostocks case.
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Recommended Citation: Amy Howe, Opinion analysis: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees (Updated), SCOTUSblog (Jun. 15, 2020, 12:28 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/opinion-analysis-federal-employment-discrimination-law-protects-gay-and-transgender-employees/
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SCOTUSblog analysis: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2020
OP
empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. 'Public Sentiment' moving along
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Gorsuch voted for it, only Thomas, Alito, and Beerbong voted against.
Pretty amazing.
TristanIsolde
(272 posts)3. This is good, now they need to revoke "at will" employment
So that companies cannot get rid of people willy nilly without cause.