U.S. Supreme Court extends Title VII retaliation protections to fianceKimberly Atkins
On April 17, 2024, inMuldrow v. St. Louis, the U.S. Supreme Court held that in order to make out a Title VII claim, an individual need only show "some harm" to an "identifiable term or condition of employment." The decision is a departure from prior law, as most courts of appea...
Under Title VII, a discriminatory job transfer is actionable if the transfer resulted in some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment. The harm suffered by the transferred employee need not be "significant" to maintain a Title VII claim. The U.S. Supreme Cou...
On Oct. 4, 2024, the Supreme Court agreed to review a reverse discrimination case where the petitioner, an Ohio Department of Youth Services employee, claims that she was denied promotion and demoted because she is heterosexual. Some courts, noting the McDonnell Douglas framework’s ...
The Supreme Court granted certiorari on June 30, 2023, to “resolve a Circuit split over whether an employee challenging a transfer under Title VII must meet a heightened threshold of harm — be it dubbed significant, serious, or something similar.” Prior toMuldrow,...
On Monday, June 15, the US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer who fires an employee for being gay or transgender violates that federal anti-discrimination statute. ...
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held in Groff v. DeJoy, No. 22-174, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to show that the burden of granting an accommodation would...
Supreme Court Adopts Narrow Definition of Supervisor under Title VIISudbury, Joshua
Supreme Courtnon-workplace harmsWhen the Supreme Court issued its landmark Title VII decision in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co v. White, it concluded that the statute's anti-retaliation provision reaches beyond the workplace to redress non-workplace harms. All of the harms alleged ...
The justices heard oral arguments in the legal battle over Title VII at the start of its term in October, during which Gorsuch, appointed to the high court by Mr. Trump, emerged as the likely swing vote. Two of the three cases before the court involved gay men who said they were fired...