June 21, 2023
The Fifth Circuit's recent ruling upholding faith-based exemptions to anti-discrimination law demonstrated a willingness by judges to entertain cases based merely on the threat of enforcement, raising eyebrows from worker advocates and management attorneys alike. Here are three things to know about the decision.
June 21, 2023
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday mostly left in place broad, faith-related exemptions to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision laying out LGBTQ anti-discrimination obligations for employers, rejecting the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's argument that it hasn't brought any enforcement action against the religious groups that sued.
February 07, 2023
A Fifth Circuit panel signaled Tuesday it may leave in place broad, faith-related exemptions that a trial court grafted into the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision, carveouts that gave religious employers leeway to flout anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ workers.
January 31, 2023
The Fifth Circuit will hear the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's challenge to a trial judge's decision granting religious organizations broad carveouts to workplace discrimination law, while the Ninth Circuit will consider whether playing certain rap music can create a hostile work environment. Here are six argument sessions slated for February that are worth watching.
August 03, 2022
Two Christian organizations asked the Fifth Circuit to preserve a trial court ruling that said many religious employers were exempt from certain federal LGBTQ workplace protections and urged the appeals court to go further and endorse additional limits on Title VII's scope.
June 01, 2022
The Biden administration urged the Fifth Circuit to overturn a Texas federal judge's ruling that exempts large swaths of religious employers from LGBTQ anti-discrimination obligations established by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark Bostock decision, saying the trial court's "advisory opinion" far exceeded its bounds.