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U.S. Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment,
Civil Rights

Apr. 23, 2019

Eyes on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh as high court accepts LGBT cases

The group of cases will allow the conservative majority court to resolve numerous circuit splits as well as a legal incongruence inside the federal government on how to apply discrimination protections under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Eyes on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh as high court accepts LGBT cases
From left, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who will hear cases on whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to gay and transgender Americans (New York Times News Service).

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a trio of cases that will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to LGBT people will allow the court to resolve national circuit splits by either diverging from or codifying anti-discrimination practices by federal agencies, appellate courts, and various bodies of state law.

According to Adam P. Romero, legal scholarship and federal policy director at the Williams...

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