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Updated at 11:15 a.m. ET on February 8, 2021.
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has been sketching the outline of a broad compromise on LGBTQ rights. Civil-rights protections will shield people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. At the same time, religious objectors will have their own set of robust rights. For example, the Court recently clarified that Title VII, the federal antidiscrimination employment law, covers LGBTQ employees. The Court also, in another case, found in favor of a baker who would not provide a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. This term, the Court is considering granting another religious exemption from civil-rights law, this time for an adoption-licensing agency in Philadelphia that refuses to consider same-sex couples as prospective parents.
Fourth Circuit issued a noteworthy decision in Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., affirming a North Carolina Federal Court holding that a law firm equity partner was not an employee; plaintiff alleged that she was treated with hostility after providing gender discrimination information
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GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | J. Scott Applewhite/AP
WASHINGTON Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ban on lawsuits through 2024 against firms that don’t protect workers and consumers from the coronavirus is even worse than advertised, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health reports, and an inspection of the measure’s underlying text confirms.
The GOP Majority Leader’s bill is actually S4317, introduced July 27 by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. McConnell is the top co-sponsor. It bans not just lawsuits involving company exposure of workers and customers to the virus, but coronavirus-related suits under most labor laws, too. The exceptions: Workers comp laws and the original National Labor Relations Act.
trump administration is inflicting on the lgbt q community every single day. shannon: an example? example right now the solicitor general is arguing gay people should be fired from their jobs for the supreme court because they are gay. shannon: those case in those arguments, that is not an accurate depiction of what is being argued. it has to do with employment law. and dissemination based on sexual orientation. shannon: title vii does protect people on the basis of gender so we are arguing what gender does include. being gay is an inherent quality in a person when they are born and they shouldn t be fired from their job because of that in terms the administration is pushing for the change. shannon: that is not an accurate representation or massive oversimplification but i don t want to get in on that but we will see what the court says on that.