Legal Opinion
Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 4, 2017No. 15-1720PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for employers subject to the Act to discriminate on the basis of a person’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin....” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a). For many years, the courts of appeals of this country understood the prohibition against sex discrimination to exclude discrimination on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation. The Supreme Court, however, has never spoken to that question. In this case, we have been asked to take a *341fresh look at our position in light of developments at the Supreme Court…
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- Fitzpatrick v. BitzerSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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