November 29, 2023
A Texas federal judge declared Wednesday that a Christian-owned management company can turn away gay or transgender workers, months after the Fifth Circuit backed its effort to seek faith-related exemptions to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision.
August 03, 2022
Two Christian organizations asked the Fifth Circuit to preserve a trial court ruling that said many religious employers were exempt from certain federal LGBTQ workplace protections and urged the appeals court to go further and endorse additional limits on Title VII's scope.
December 13, 2021
A Texas federal judge said religious employers are shielded from some suits alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, the Seventh Circuit took a broad view of a religious carveout to bias law, and a university was ordered to reinstate a transgender professor. Here are three LGBTQ discrimination decisions from 2021 that should be on employment lawyers' radar.
October 31, 2021
Two Christian organizations are exempt from the LGBTQ anti-discrimination obligations established by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark Bostock decision, a Texas federal judge ruled Sunday while also tackling issues like sex-specific dress codes and bathroom usage that he said the nation's highest court left unaddressed.
June 08, 2021
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fired back at a pair of Christian organizations seeking exemption from federal bias law in Texas district court, saying the groups couldn't represent the "exceptionally broad" classes they proposed because they didn't have enough in common.
May 25, 2021
Two Christian organizations asked a Texas federal judge to back their proposed class action against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment exempt them from complying with federal LGBTQ workplace protections.
January 26, 2021
A Texas federal judge has cleared a coalition of Christian organizations to move ahead with its legal challenge against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over federal LGBT workplace protections, finding Tuesday that the clash between the law and the organizations' faith is more than theoretical.
December 04, 2019
A Texas federal judge will wait to decide the validity of a case challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's stance that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects LGBT workers until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the topic.
June 06, 2019
If a Texas federal court doesn't throw out a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's stance that Title VII protects gay and transgender workers, it should freeze the case until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the federal anti-discrimination law's scope, the EEOC said.
May 23, 2019
An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brochure saying Title VII protects gay and transgender workers did enough harm to employers to warrant a lawsuit challenging the agency's take on the federal anti-bias statute, a Texas-based church group said.