Bank of America settles LGBT discrimination claim 
Published: February 1, 2013
Tags: Bank of America, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Discrimination, Equal Access Rule, gender discrimination, gender identity, HUD, sexual orientation discrimination
Bank of America will pay $7,500 to settle the first action to enforce the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new rule prohibiting home lenders from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Benchmarks: Can ‘perceived homosexual’ bring job-bias suit?
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 15, 2012
Tags: hostile work environment, sexual orientation discrimination
Does state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination protect a heterosexual employee who claimed he suffered from a hostile work environment because he was perceived to be a homosexual?
One state court just answered that question in the negative.
State AGs weigh in against DOMA
Published: September 18, 2012
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, equal protection, estate planning, estate tax, same-sex marriage, sex discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination
The 2nd Circuit should strike down the Defense of Marriage Act as an unconstitutional violation of the equal protection rights of same-sex couples, a trio of state Attorneys General argues in a new brief.
Benchmarks: Transgendered job applicant loses bid to sue UPS
Published: September 18, 2012
Tags: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, disability discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, Title VII, transgender
Employers aren’t supposed to be clairvoyant when it comes to job applicants.
So it’s hard to fathom why a transgendered Minnesota man ever expected to hold UPS liable for discrimination when he couldn’t even show the shipping company was aware he was in the process of changing his sex at the time he interviewed for a job.
Jury awards $4.5 million over stalking and defamation
Published: August 17, 2012
Tags: defamation, Michigan, sexual orientation discrimination, stalking
A federal court jury has awarded $4.5million to an openly gay former University of Michigan student body president who accused a former state attorney of stalking and defaming him, his lawyer said.
Lawmaker renews push on sexual orientation bias bill
Published: May 10, 2012
Tags: Employment Non-Discrimination Act, gender identity discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination
WASHINGTON – One day after President Barack Obama said in a television interview that he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the chairman of a Senate committee on workplace issues called for a hearing on the long-stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Lawyers USA’s Top Ten Opinions of 2011
Published: January 6, 2012
Tags: arbitration, breath test, drunk driving, Facebook, gestational agreement, health care reform, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Obamacare, parental rights, privacy, product liability, sexual orientation discrimination, source code, transgender
As usual, there were a number of noteworthy decisions from federal and state courts in 2011:
1. Topping the list is the 11th Circuit’s decision to strike down the individual mandate in the new federal healthcare reform law.
The federal appeals court’s ruling is probably the
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Gay stagehand’s bias suit against union to proceed
Published: August 4, 2011
Tags: sexual orientation discrimination, Tennessee, union
A stagehand who claims he lost work on country music awards shows because he is gay has won a federal court ruling that allows him to pursue a discrimination lawsuit against the Nashville, Tenn. local of the theater workers union.
Police sergeant wins $1.1 million in bias case
Published: May 23, 2011
Tags: California, gay rights, police, retaliation, sexual orientation discrimination
An Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who claimed he was the victim of retaliation for being gay awarded $1.16 million by a jury.
Bill would prohibit sexual orientation discrimination
Published: April 29, 2011
Tags: Discrimination, sexual orientation, sexual orientation discrimination
A bill outlawing job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been introduced in the Senate.
