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  1. July 10, 2020

    High Court's LGBT Bias Blockbuster Headlines Packed Term

    While the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ employees resolved a closely watched question that had been brewing for years, the justices also devoted time to workplace law issues like religious employers' rights and causation standards in civil rights cases. Here, Law360 looks at five of the high court's most notable employment decisions this term.

  2. June 16, 2020

    How Gorsuch's Textualism Won A Major LGBTQ Rights Victory

    Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has long preached the importance of looking primarily to the words of a statute to derive its meaning. Here's how lawyers for three fired workers homed in on that judicial philosophy to score the biggest LGBTQ rights victory since Obergefell.

  3. June 15, 2020

    High Court Ruling Aids Trans Workers' Fight For Health Care

    The U.S. Supreme Court's Monday ruling that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bans discrimination against LGBTQ people strengthens the argument that employee health plans must cover treatments for transgender workers, such as hormone-replacement therapy and gender-transition surgery.

  4. June 15, 2020

    High Court Says Title VII Protects Gay, Trans Workers

    The U.S. Supreme Court handed LGBTQ employees a pivotal win Monday, ruling that a federal law banning gender bias protects workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. 

  5. October 08, 2019

    Gorsuch Says Sex Seems To Factor Into Gay Worker Firings

    Justice Neil Gorsuch gave LGBTQ advocates a glimmer of hope Tuesday when he said sex "appears to be a factor" in decisions to fire gay workers, during closely watched U.S. Supreme Court arguments over whether federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination.

  6. October 07, 2019

    Supreme Court Hears LGBTQ Bias Blockbuster: A Cheat Sheet

    The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a trio of cases Tuesday asking whether federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination, a battle that could lead to the biggest LGBTQ rights ruling since the high court's landmark decision legalizing gay marriage in 2015. 

  7. October 04, 2019

    Up Next At High Court: Showdown Over LGBTQ Discrimination

    The Supreme Court will dive headlong into the 2019 term starting Monday with oral arguments in the biggest LGBTQ rights cases since Obergefell, but the justices will tackle other issues of interest to the legal industry as well, such as the USPTO's "radical" and "unprecedented" policy on attorney fees.

  8. September 11, 2019

    High Court Clears Way For SG To Argue In LGBTQ Bias Suits

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for the U.S. solicitor general to participate in arguments next month in three cases involving whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies to discrimination against gay and transgender workers.

  9. September 10, 2019

    LGBTQ Workers Tell High Court Title VII Protects Them

    A trio of gay and transgender workers defended their stance that Title VII protects LGBTQ employees from job discrimination to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing that the Trump administration's assertion otherwise ran afoul of the "plain text" of the statute.

  10. August 23, 2019

    Title VII Doesn't Ban LGBT Bias, High Court Hears

    Opponents of expanding Title VII to cover LGBT workers told the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of a Friday amicus brief deadline that a broad reading of the statute by the justices will lead to the violation of free speech rights for those who believe that sex is physiology-based and could result in women being disadvantaged.