Cases — June 14th through 20th, 2020

Discrimination~Retaliation

Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia (U.S., June 15, 2020) (reversing 11th Circuit decision that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not prohibit the termination of employees for being gay: In Title VII, Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee’s sex when deciding to fire that employee; as a necessary consequence of that legislation, an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law)

*Mann v. XPO Logistics Freight, Inc. (10th Cir., June 19, 2020) (reversing summary judgment against Plaintiff McGee’s discrimination and retaliation claims: McGee presented sufficient evidence to create a genuine issue of material fact regarding pretext)

*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.