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SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES
4.  Applying civil rights protections in LGBT discrimination cases

Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc will determine whether the federal civil rights law that bans workplace sex discrimination also applies to sexual orientation.

The skydiving company asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal in the case it lost in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit earlier this year. That decision found that the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it fired him for being gay.

“Because sexual orientation is a function of sex and sex is a protected characteristic under Title VII, it follows that sexual orientation is also protected,” the court ruled.

I think this Supreme Court will probably rule 5 - 4 that laws which protect people from workplace sexual discrimination should not also protect LGBT persons from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.  I hope I'm wrong about that.

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RE: SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES - by HairOfTheDog - 10-10-2018, 05:34 PM