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The EEOC is seeking to dismiss three cases in Illinois as well as one in Alabama, New York and California. In each instance, the original complaints allege discrimination against transgender or gender nonconforming workers.
In February 2025, the EEOC moved to dismiss six of its own pending cases alleging gender identity discrimination: One in Alabama, one in California, three in Illinois and one in New York. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] It cited President Donald Trump 's January 20, 2025, executive order, " Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological ...
Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that sexual orientation and gender identity are included under "sex" of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This affirms rulings in the Second, the Sixth, the Seventh, and the Eleventh circuit courts.
Jeffrey Irvine Cummings (born 1962) [1] is an American lawyer from Illinois, who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since 2023. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2019 to 2023.
“We’ve seen cases where public statements about DEI have been twisted into grounds for lawsuits, EEOC claims, or social media backlash,” attorney Annette Tyman tells Fortune.
Karla Gilbride is an American attorney and civil rights litigator who is the former General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). [1] [2] Gilbride is the first individual with a known disability to serve as the General Counsel of the EEOC, and holds the distinction of being the first blind lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court.
The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that administers the Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination with respect to employment, financial credit, public accommodations and real estate transactions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, ancestry, military ...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 defines two types of discrimination: disparate treatment and disparate impact.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), who has been enforcing Title VII since it came into effect in 1965, has the power to periodically issue an 'enforcement guidance' explaining how employers could use the backgrounds of potential employees (including their ...