Articles Posted in sexual orientation discrimination

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination.  Title VII, however, prohibits only the types of discrimination identified in the statute, including race discrimination, sex discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.  For nearly two decades, the prevailing view from the country’s federal courts, including New York’s…

Sexual orientation “is a form of sex discrimination” — so ruled a federal appellate court in Illinois.  This is a departure from rulings from other appellate courts across the country which had determined that Title VII does not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.  The Seventh Circuit’s decision…