LePage joins court brief asking to make discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identit [View all]

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Source: Portland Press Herald

Maine Gov. Paul LePage has joined 15 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that companies can fire workers based on their sexual orientation and gender identity without violating federal workplace discrimination law.

In an Aug. 23 amicus curiae – or friend of the court – brief filed with the Supreme Court, LePage is listed as one of 16 petitioners, who include 13 Republican attorneys general and two other Republican governors.

According to court records, the brief was filed by Attorney General Douglas J. Peterson and Chief Deputy Attorney General David Bydalek, both of Nebraska. They ask the Supreme Court to overturn a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision against a Michigan funeral home that fired a transgender worker. In that case, the worker had informed a supervisor that the worker was transitioning to becoming a woman.

Peterson and Bydalek called on the court to “grant the petition and hear this case of national importance.”

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/08/27/lepage-joins-15-other-states-in-brief-to-high-court-about-transgender-worker-case/

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LePage joins court brief asking to make discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity legal

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