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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), was 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.
The Court announced that the Lemon test from the landmark case of Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) had been abandoned by the Court in later cases. Instead, the Court announced, original meaning and history govern analysis of the Establishment Clause.
Argument: Oral argument: Case history; Prior: Espinoza v. Montana Dep't of Revenue, 2018 MT 306, 393 Mont. 446, 435 P.3d 603; cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 2777 (2019).: Holding; The application of the no-aid provision discriminated against religious schools and the families whose children attend or hope to attend them in violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the Federal Constitution.
This was the sixteenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure and the first term for Justice Barrett. The Court began its term with a vacant seat following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020. The seat was filled by Amy Coney Barrett on October 26, 2020.
"Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Commonwealth countries, a reported decision is said to be a leading decision when it has come to be generally regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
Gerald Bostock's long journey to a Supreme Court victory began in 2013, when he was fired from his job as a child welfare advocate at a suspicious moment.
Six young adults and children argued that governments across Europe aren’t doing enough to protect people from climate change at the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday in the latest and ...
Jim Obergefell was the lead plaintiff on the landmark case that gave same-sex couples the right to get married in 2015 after the death of husband John Arthur. The heartbreaking love story behind ...