Discrimination, Same-Sex Marriage

Pensions: what's new this week - 25 September 2023

A&O Shearman on 9/26/2023

Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: PLSA updated...more

Respect for Marriage Act Reaffirms Protections for Same-Sex and Interracial Marriages

K&L Gates LLP on 12/27/2022

A recently enacted federal law serves as a reminder to employers to ensure their workplace policies and procedures, including those relating to employee benefits, should not discriminate on account of an employee’s marital...more

Best in Law: New 2020 Laws for Employers

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 2/6/2020

Partner Joseph Ortiz Discusses Changes in the Southern California Newspaper Group - For California employers, 2020 brings sweeping changes to equalize the workplace. This playbook of new employment laws — aimed at...more

Supreme Court Rules Bakery Did Not Discriminate Against Gay Customer

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 10/15/2018

The Supreme Court has this week handed down judgment in the long-running “gay cake” case (Lee v McArthur and Ashers Baking Company Limited). The bakery, which is in Northern Ireland and run by individuals with strict...more

Religious Institutions Update: October 2016

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/27/2016

Timely Topics - The final rule implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on May...more

Employment Law Navigator – Week in Review: January 2016

Zelle LLP on 1/5/2016

Last week, Cargill Meat Solutions terminated approximately 190 employees who failed to report to work for three consecutive days. The employees, who are Muslim, stayed away from work in protest over the meatpacking plant’s...more

The Impact Of Obergefell On Employee Benefits

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 8/26/2015

Prior to the Obergefell decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in U.S. v. Windsor, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which mandated that federal laws only recognize opposite-sex marriages. As a result of...more

Colorado Rules Baker Cannot Refuse Service to Same-Sex Couples for Religious Reasons

Burr & Forman on 8/20/2015

In a post last week, I discussed how some believe Tennessee’s version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”) could allow Tennessee businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples despite a recent ruling that...more

That is SO last week - August 2015

Zelle LLP on 8/4/2015

Last week, the world mourned Cecil the Lion, and all eyes were on the Minnesota dentist who killed him. The scrutiny of the dentist unearthed, among other things, a sexual harassment complaint lodged against him by a former...more

The Equality Act: Federal Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Law Introduced in Congress

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 7/24/2015

Last month, in a historic case, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that same-sex couples—like their heterosexual counterparts— have the constitutional right to marry. On the heels of this decision, federal agencies and...more

That is SO last week - July 2015 #3

Zelle LLP on 7/21/2015

There’s just no rest for employment lawyers this summer. We had another exciting week. The biggest news was the EEOC’s ruling that Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The agency found that...more

RLUIPA Round-Up

Robinson+Cole RLUIPA Defense on 7/13/2015

Religion Clause Blog reports that Indiana’s First Church of Cannabis is using the state’s recently enacted religious freedom law to protect its founder and two members from prosecution for possession of marijuana. The Church...more

The Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling & Its Employment Implications

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 7/8/2015

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably are well aware that on June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry and have their marriages recognized across the...more

The Gay Marriage Decision: Support for Title VII Employment Discrimination Claims?

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 7/8/2015

Following the excitement of the same-sex marriage decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26th, the question remains how much the Opinion may impact Title VII employment discrimination claims. Based on our reading of the...more

What the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Means for Employers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/30/2015

On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its long-awaited opinion in the Obergefell case, striking down bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional and legalizing same-sex marriage in every state. We posted...more

SCOTUS Alert: Same-Sex Marriage is a Go, and ACA Stays Alive

Baker Donelson on 6/29/2015

Two big decisions in two days from the Supreme Court. Read on for details. Same-Sex Marriage is a Go! Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a monumental decision in Obergefell, et al. v. Hodges, et al.; Case No....more

First Glance: Same-Sex Marriage Equality Decision Raises Myriad Legal Questions

JD Supra Perspectives on 6/26/2015

First glance perspective of the historic same-sex marriage equality decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, by Brian Paul, business litigation partner in law firm FaegreBD’s Indianapolis office....more

A First Look at the Workplace Implications of Same-Sex Marriage Equality

JD Supra Perspectives on 6/26/2015

We asked attorneys writing on JD Supra to share with us their initial thoughts on the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell decision in favor of same-sex marriage equaliy, especially with the regard to the...more

The U.S. Supreme Court Finds a Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage: Implications for Employee Benefit Plan Sponsors

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 6/26/2015

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require states to allow same-sex marriage and to...more

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