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Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Audio of the opinion of the Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020).
For ten years, Gerald Bostock served Clayton County, Georgia as a child welfare services coordinator. During his tenure there, Bostock consistently received positive evaluations. That is, until 2013 when colleagues began openly criticizing him at work after learning that he belonged to a gay softball league, bringing attention to his sexual orientation. Around this time, Clayton County initiated an internal audit of the program that Bostock managed just before terminating him - not for mismanagement of the program - but, for alleged "conduct unbecoming" of County employees. The alleged conduct in question was, apparently, being gay.
Bostock promptly filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), marking the beginning of a long legal battle that would eventually find its way before the Supreme Court of the United States - asking whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination “because of . . . sex” encompasses sexual orientation.
In a 6-to-3 decision, the Court held that an employer who fires an individual employee for being gay or transgender indeed violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Access this SCOTUS opinion and other essential case information on Oyez.
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