SCOTUS Agrees to Decide Whether You Can Fire Someone for Being LGBTQ

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SCOTUS Agrees to Decide Whether You Can Fire Someone for Being LGBTQ

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take three high-profile cases involving LGBTQ workplace protections.

The National Law Journal reports: “The cases, closely watched by employers, consumers, civil rights groups, conservative and religious organizations, will draw the high court back into the culture wars amid the 2020 presidential election year. The justices will hear arguments next term in the cases Altitude Express v. Zarda from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Bostock v. Clayton County from the Eleventh Circuit and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionfrom the Sixth Circuit. At the center of each case is Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars employers from discriminating because of sex, race, color, national origin or religion. The Zarda and Bostock cases ask the justices whether “because of sex” includes an individual’s sexual orientation. The Second Circuit said it does; the Eleventh Circuit disagreed with that conclusion.”

“The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said that Title VII bars discrimination against gay and transgender people. In recent briefs, the Trump administration has taken the opposite position.”

— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) April 22, 2019

Politico reports: “The justices announced Monday that they will consider whether existing federal law banning employment-related sex discrimination also prohibits discriminating against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation or because they are transgender. The Supreme Court said it will hear a pair of cases in which federal appeals courts split over whether gay and lesbian employees are protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

The cases will be argued this fall.

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