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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of sexuality or gender identity.
Controversies involving media bias, the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism , rather than the perspective of an individual ...
Internet platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are not systematically biased against conservatives or right-wing viewpoints in their content moderation practices, according to an analysis ...
In 1988, the Supreme Court declared 5-3 that student newspapers do not have the same freedoms and safeguards as professional media. The case was the result of the school administration of Hazelwood East High School in Missouri forbidding the publication of two newspaper stories regarding abortion and divorce in 1983.
In a case testing the scope of federal workplace protections, the justices ruled 9-0 to throw out a lower court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the officer, Jatonya Muldrow, and ...
A 24-year-old Tampa man had an announcement for the Pinellas County Justice Center courtroom on a Friday in July: “My goal is to become a stable, contributing part of the community,” he said.
According to Dixon and Linz, the news media often reports cases where children of color are criminals but often report cases of white children being victims of crime. [81] Attention was brought to racial bias in the media following the case of Gabby Petito in September 2021.
Prior to the landmark cases Bostock v. Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2020), employment protections for LGBT people were patchwork; several states and localities explicitly prohibit harassment and bias in employment decisions on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender ...