Labor/Employment
Apr. 12, 2017
Title VII ruling reflects current values
The 7th Circuit said Title VII prohibits an employer from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation -- the first federal court of appeal to so hold. The real surprise is that it took so long.
Richard Thompson Ford
Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Phone: (415) 723-2796
Harvard Univ Law School
Richard Thompson Ford (@our_ford) is a professor of law at Stanford Law School
In Hively v. Ivy Tech, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits an employer from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation - the first federal court of appeal to so hold. But the decision is not a significant departure from past precedent or conventional civil rights jurisprudence. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had already taken the position that Title VII prohibits discrimination based in sexual orien...
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