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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

Get with the Pronoun: Eleventh Circuit Rules Pervasive Misgendering Is Harassment

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/9/2024

If an employer or coworker persistently uses a transgender worker’s wrong name or identified pronoun, can that constitute a hostile work environment in violation of Title VII? In Copeland v. Georgia Department of Corrections,...more

Seventh Circuit Takes On Religious Discrimination

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/24/2023

The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of an employer in a religious discrimination case involving a teacher who refused to call transgender students by their chosen names....more

District Court Enjoins EEOC and Department of Education Guidance Protecting LGBTQ Rights

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/26/2022

On July 15, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee entered a preliminary injunction barring the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Education (ED) from enforcing...more

First Texas Court of Appeals to Follow Bostock Ruling

Baker Donelson on 3/24/2021

Nine months after the United States Supreme Court's historic decision in Bostock, the Texas Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had to decide whether the interpretation of Title VII's language in protecting LGBTQ employees also...more

Happy Thanksgiving! 7 Things for Which We Are Thankful – 2020 Edition

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/25/2020

Many of us are understandably anxious to put the year 2020 behind us and move onward and upward! But before we all sit down at the table and fill our plates and bellies to overflowing as we start the holiday season, we can...more

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