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Bostock denied any wrongdoing and insisted the true motivation for his firing was homophobic discrimination after his participation in a gay amateur softball league allegedly caused ill feeling towards him among some of his colleagues. Those courts have found, to illustrate the point, that a gay man wouldn't be targeted if he were instead a woman dating a man; thus he faced discrimination because of his sex.

An amicus brief filed by the Justice Department weighed in on two cases involving gay workers and what is meant by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ofwhich bans discrimination 'because of sex. Those reports were highly accurate. In Aprilthe U.

Supreme Court consolidated two separate discrimination cases: "Bostock v.

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The county terminated his contract for "conduct unbecoming" after an audit of his handling of certain work-related funds. The District Court dismissed Bostock's case on several grounds, but primarily because federal anti-discrimination law, in the form of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, does not explicitly include sexual orientation among the protected traits that can form the basis of a discrimination claim those being sex, race, religion, national origin, age, pregnancy and disability.

Clayton County" and "Altitude Express v. He said Caitlyn Jenner could use any bathroom at Trump Tower that she wanted. In practice, this would establish a precedent whereby firing an employee for sexual orientation would not, in and of itself, be illegal.

On Aug. In an amicus brief filed Friday, the Justice Department argued that a trio of cases set to appear before the Supreme Court this fall should be used to limit Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ofwhich prohibits discrimination 'because of sex.

With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to issue a major ruling on whether firing workers for being gay, lesbian and bisexual is legal under federal civil rights law, the Trump administration has weighed in with its view: Fire away. In Augustwe received multiple inquiries from readers about the accuracy of news reports that U.

President Donald Trump's administration had asked the U. Supreme Court to rule that it was legal for employers to fire workers on the basis of their sexual orientation. In Junethe Supreme Court issued its decision in the consolidated case in question. But since returning to office this year, Trump has engaged in what activists say is an unprecedented assault on the LGBTQ+ community.

District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, claiming he was fired "based on his sexual orientation and failure to conform to a gender stereotype. Full Report: The Trump administration took its hardest line yet to legalize anti-gay discrimination on Friday when it asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire workers based only on their sexual orientation.

Sex-discrimination jurisprudence in the U. Hopkins,' the U. Court of Appeals for the D. "The Trump administration took its hardest line yet to legalize anti-gay discrimination on Friday when it asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire.

As such, the reports mentioned above fairly summarized this set of circumstances as the Trump administration asking the Supreme Court to legalize firing lesbian, gay and bisexual workers on the basis of their sexual orientation. Based on the facts presented in two U.

Court of Appeals cases, two U. Gerald Lynn Bostock is a gay man who sued his employer, Clayton County, Georgia, inafter officials fired him from his job as a child-welfare services coordinator attached to the county's juvenile court.

By a vote, the court ruled that federal law does indeed bar employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity as impermissible sex discrimination. The court also rejected Bostock's claim that he had been terminated for his "failure to conform to a gender stereotype," finding that he had not presented any evidence to support it, and also concluding that it was "bootstrapped" to his primary claim because his attorneys correctly predicted that a lawsuit based only on a "pure" sexual-orientation discrimination claim would be dismissed.

Supreme Court, asking the court to make decisions that would set a judicial precedent in which existing federal non-discrimination law does not forbid employers from firing workers on the basis of their sexual orientation, as a form of sex discrimination.

About this rating. Fact Check: Did the Trump administration say employers can fire workers for being gay? And he was the first president to name an openly gay person to a Offended gay position.

In a page brief submitted Friday and signed by the U.S. Solicitor.