May 30, 2024
An evangelical teacher who lost his job after he objected to using gender-affirming names and pronouns for his transgender students is asking the Seventh Circuit to take another look at his religious bias case.
April 30, 2024
An Indiana federal court Tuesday dismissed a suit from a Christian former teacher who objected to using gender-affirming names for trans students, ruling that letting him refer to students by last names only would be asking too much under a standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
January 26, 2024
A Christian former music teacher in Indiana who refused to use gender-affirming names for his transgender students and says he was subsequently forced out argued Friday that a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling from June shows the school district should have accommodated him because "the underlying law has fundamentally changed."
January 01, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on which job actions are covered under Title VII, while lower courts will apply a new religious accommodations test to a Christian teacher's bias suit and potentially help clarify the scope of a law banning mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims. Here, Law360 looks at three discrimination cases that ought to be on lawyers' radar in the coming year.
July 13, 2021
An Indiana federal judge threw out an evangelical Christian teacher's lawsuit claiming he was illegally fired for refusing to use transgender students' gender-affirming names and pronouns, as the court found that letting the educator skip the practice harmed the students.