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SCOTUS Declines To Address Texas Supreme Court Ruling Limiting Reach of Obergefell

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court announced that it would not hear an appeal from the City of Houston in a case challenging the city’s ability to offer spousal benefits to same-sex spouses of municipal employees. By...more

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Terminated: A Marriage’s End Should Not Lead to Employment’s End

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Last month, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in Robert Smith v. Millville Rescue Squad (MRS) that an employer cannot terminate an employee for separating or divorcing – the processes of which apparently falls under the...more

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Same-Sex Marriage and Employment Discrimination: The Future of Sexual Orientation Bias Claims

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On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country. In Oberfell v. Hodges, the Court held that Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment – commonly referred to as the Equal...more

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