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  • Divided Supreme Court weighs LGBT people's rights

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  • SUPREME COURT ISSUES LANDMARK LGBT RULINGS

    2015/11/18 · The Supreme Court made history today by deciding two landmark cases on LGBT equality today with far-reaching implications. With the Supreme Court's rulings today, the part of the Defense of ...

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    2019/10/07 · Supreme Court Will Decide On Protections For LGBTQ Employees The court will examine whether workplace discrimination protections extend to LGBTQ people — a ruling that will have widespread ...

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    2020/01/09 · In addition to several cases involving LGBT rights and employment discrimination, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide other disputes with implications for the education community. Among those so ...

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    2018/06/04 · The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious objection.

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  • LGBT+ Protests Outside Supreme Court - YouTube

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  • LGBT rights in the United States - Wikipedia

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) people in the United States may face legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. While the United States Supreme Court has legalized many LGBT rights, they continue to vary by jurisdiction, and discrimination in jobs and housing is still legal in most states.

  • Divided Supreme Court Hears LGBTQ Employment Case : NPR

    2019/10/08 · Updated at 12:59 p.m. ET The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a long-awaited set of cases testing whether the federal law that bars sex discrimination in employment applies to LGBTQ ...

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    2019/10/08 · The justices of the Supreme Court clashed over the meaning of "sex" in heated oral arguments on Tuesday for a blockbuster set of cases concerning the rights of LGBT workers. The court heard the ...

  • Divided Supreme Court weighs LGBT people's rights

    2019/10/08 · A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, with one conservative justice wondering if the court should take heed of "massive social upheaval" that could follow a ruling in their favor.

  • India court legalises gay sex in landmark ruling - BBC …

    2018/09/06 · But this ruling, from the top court, is the final say in the matter and represents a huge victory for India's LGBT community. One activist outside the court told the BBC: "I hadn't come out to my ...

  • Divided Supreme Court weighs LGBT people's rights

    2019/10/08 · A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, with one conservative justice wondering if the court should take heed of "massive social upheaval" that could follow a ruling in their favor.

  • Supreme Court LGBTQ rights cases affect all Americans - Vox

    2019/10/08 · The Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Tuesday in three cases that could decimate legal protections for LGBTQ workers in America. The cases, Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda, Bostock v. Clayton ...

  • The Pathway to Victory: A review of Supreme Court LGBT ...

    2013/07/30 · This ruling highlights how the Court’s treatment of LGBT people has monumentally shifted in just 27 years from when it first held that states could criminalize sodomy. Inspired by the ruling in United States v.

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    2015/06/26 · A deeply divided Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they ...

  • Supreme Court to Decide Whether Landmark Civil …

    2019/04/22 · The Supreme Court will hear cases based on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids employment discrimination based on sex, and whether it applies to sexual orientation or transgender status ...

  • How the Supreme Court's LGBTQ discrimination ruling …

    2019/10/08 · On Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court justices will begin hearing arguments in some of the biggest cases of the new session. At issue is whether gay and transgender people are covered by Title VII of the ...

  • High stakes for LGBT Americans at Supreme Court next …

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  • Supreme Court sets Oct. 8 to hear whether workers can …

    2019/07/03 · The U.S. Supreme Court has designed Oct. 8 as the date when it will hear arguments on whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to cases of anti-LGBT discrimination, setting up a ...

  • U.S. Supreme Court to hear cases Tuesday about LGBT rights

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  • All the Times the Supreme Court Has Ruled on LGBT …

    2017/11/23 · And the many prior LGBT right cases that have come before the Supreme Court hint at how this one might go: the court tends to side with anti-discrimination. One, Inc. v. Olesen in 1958 Win for ...

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  • Supreme Court decision on L.G.B.T. discrimination sets …

    2019/10/11 · The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this week in two cases that will consider whether a part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination for L.G.B.T. people ...

  • Supreme Court Ruling Ducks Conflict Between Religious ...

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    2020/02/24 · If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic Social Services, that fear will grow, she added, arguing that “we can’t afford such a deterrent.” Such a ruling could also harm members of minority faith groups, who are sometimes turned away by faith-based agencies for having different beliefs, Cooper said.

  • The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 | TheHill

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  • Lawrence v. Texas - Wikipedia

    Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American laws prohibiting private homosexual activity between consenting adults are unconstitutional. The Court reaffirmed the concept of a "right to privacy" that earlier cases, such as ...

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    2019/10/28 · Francisco told the justices that a ruling for the plaintiffs would give a “complete victory” to one side, without resolving the issue of religious objections to hiring LGBT employees. He reminded the court that in its decision affirming