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Dan McLaughlin of the ''[[National Review]]'' postulated that Dixiecrat [[Howard W. Smith]]'s insertion of the word "sex" in Title&nbsp;VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had inadvertently protected sexual orientation and gender identity from employment discrimination.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/trolling-is-a-terrible-way-to-write-laws/|title=Trolling Is a Terrible Way to Write Laws|last=McLaughlin|first=Dan|publisher=National Review|date=June 15, 2020|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref>
Dan McLaughlin of the ''[[National Review]]'' postulated that Dixiecrat [[Howard W. Smith]]'s insertion of the word "sex" in Title&nbsp;VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had inadvertently protected sexual orientation and gender identity from employment discrimination.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/trolling-is-a-terrible-way-to-write-laws/|title=Trolling Is a Terrible Way to Write Laws|last=McLaughlin|first=Dan|publisher=National Review|date=June 15, 2020|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref>


For Gerald Bostock, the only surviving plaintiff from all three cases, he stated that he "proud to take part in a role to get us to this historic moment". The Supreme Court decision remanded his case to be reheard at the District Court.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/supreme-court-sent-clear-message-lgbtq-ruling-plaintiff-gerald-bostock-n1231190 | title = Supreme Court sent 'clear message' with LGBTQ ruling, plaintiff Gerald Bostock says | first= Tim | last = Fitzsimons | date = June 16, 2020 | accessdate = June 16, 2020 | work = [[NBC News]] }}</ref>
For Gerald Bostock, the only surviving plaintiff from all three cases, he stated that he was "proud to take part in a role to get us to this historic moment". The Supreme Court decision remanded his case to be reheard at the District Court.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/supreme-court-sent-clear-message-lgbtq-ruling-plaintiff-gerald-bostock-n1231190 | title = Supreme Court sent 'clear message' with LGBTQ ruling, plaintiff Gerald Bostock says | first= Tim | last = Fitzsimons | date = June 16, 2020 | accessdate = June 16, 2020 | work = [[NBC News]] }}</ref>


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Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 8, 2019
Decided June 15, 2020
Full case nameGerald Lynn Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia
Docket no.17-1618
Citations590 U.S. ___ (more)
2020 WL 3146686
ArgumentOral argument
Case history
Prior
  • Bostock v. Clayton Cnty., No. 1:16-cv-001460, 2016 WL 9753356 (N.D. Ga. November 3, 2016); report and recommendation adopted, 2017 WL 4456898 (N.D. Ga. July 21, 2017); affirmed sub nom. Bostock v. Clayton Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 723 F. App'x 964 (11th Cir. 2018); cert. granted, 139 S.Ct. 1599 (2019).
  • Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc., No. 2:10-cv-04334 (E.D.N.Y. March 28, 2014); affirmed, 855 F.3d 76 (2d Cir. 2017); reversed on rehearing en banc, 883 F.3d 100 (2d Cir. 2018); cert. granted, 139 S.Ct. 1599 (2019).
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc., 100 F. Supp. 3d 594 (E.D. Mich. 2015); summary judgment granted, 201 F. Supp. 3d 837 (E.D. Mich. 2016); reversed, 884 F.3d 560 (6th Cir. 2018); cert. granted, 139 S.Ct. 1599 (2019).
Holding
An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
MajorityGorsuch, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
DissentAlito, joined by Thomas
DissentKavanaugh
Laws applied
Civil Rights Act of 1964

Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.[1]

The plaintiff, Gerald Bostock, was fired after he expressed interest in a gay softball league at work. The lower courts followed the Eleventh Circuit's past precedent that Title VII did not cover employment discrimination protection based on sexual orientation. The case was consolidated with Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda, a similar case of apparent discrimination due to sexual orientation from the Second Circuit, but which had added to a circuit split. Oral arguments were heard on October 8, 2019, alongside R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a similar question of Title VII discrimination under the Civil Rights Act relating to transgender persons.

On June 15, 2020, the Court ruled in a 6–3 decision by Justice Neil Gorsuch covering all three cases that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is necessarily also discrimination on the basis of sex, as prohibited in employment by Title VII. In the Court's analysis, that is so because employers discriminating against gay or transgender employees accept a certain conduct (e.g., attraction to women) in employees of one sex but not in employees of the other sex.

The ruling has been hailed as one of the most important legal decisions regarding LGBT rights in the United States, along with Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).[2]

Background

Legislative and prior case law

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed into law amid the civil rights movement of the middle 20th century. It had been proposed by President John F. Kennedy as a means to help improve racial equality during rising tensions in the early 1960s. After Kennedy's assassination, his successor Lyndon B. Johnson championed for the Civil Rights Act passage in the following year.[3]

Among several provisions in the law is Title VII for equal employment opportunities. Its key provision, at 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1), states that it is illegal to discriminate in any hiring or employment practices based on an "individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin". To enforce this, the law established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency based on a previous office established by Kennedy, to help oversee any reported employment discrimination and file lawsuits against entities that the EEOC believes have used discrimination in employment practices. In addition, the EEOC may make its own determination on cases rather than taking these to court. These decisions do not carry the weight of case law, but the Supreme Court does consider the weight of the EEOC opinions as the EEOC "constitute[s] a body of experience and informed judgment to which courts and litigants may properly resort for guidance".[4]

The nature of what protected classes under § 2000e-2(a)(1) have been refined through case law over the years. Three key Supreme Court cases prior to Bostock had considered the aspect of "sex" in context of the statute:[5]

LGBT employment protections

Main article: LGBT employment discrimination in the United States

Until Bostock, whether the Civil Rights Act gave federal protection against employment discrimination to the class of LGBT people was in dispute. Individual states since 1973 acted on their own accord to extend employment discrimination protections to explicitly cover LGBT employees, and by 2020 before the Bostock decision, 21 states had included LGBT as a protected class against employment discrimination, while other states offered some some but less extensive protections in their laws. States with such protections often have a state-level board that performs functions equivalent to the EEOC, and which will work with the EEOC to unify employment discrimination regulations. Numerous local governments passed similar LGBT employment discrimination statutes as well.[6]

Since 1994, the Democratic Party members of the U.S. Congress have introduced some form of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in nearly every two-year term, which would have amended the Civil Rights Act to include both sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under Title VII at the federal level and thus applying across the entire country. Passage of these bills have generally failed from partisan politics.[7] More recently, the Equality Act, expanding the non-discrimination protections to include housing, education, and other areas, was introduced in 2015 and similarly introduced each term, failing to pass due to partisan politics.[8][9]

The EEOC has used past case law and its evaluation of discrimination cases brought before it to establish that LBGT discrimination is unlawful under the context of the Civil Rights Act. In 2012, the EEOC ruled in Macy v. Holder that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is a form of sex stereotyping, and thus prohibited in employment as a form of discrimination on the basis of sex under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[10] In 2015, the EEOC ruled in Baldwin v. Foxx that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is also prohibited in employment under Title VII, on the exact same basis as in Macy.[11]

Case background

Gerald Bostock was an employee of Clayton County, within the Atlanta metropolitan area, as an official within its juvenile court since 2003, with good performance records through the years. In early 2013, he joined a gay softball league and promoted it for volunteerism.[12] In April 2013, Clayton County conducted an audit of funds controlled by Bostock and fired him for "conduct unbecoming a county employee".[13] Georgia was one of those states without any law protecting LGBT from employment discrimination.[6]

Bostock believed that the county used the claim of misspent funds as a pretext for firing him for being gay, and sought legal recourse for workplace discrimination in 2016 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The county sought to dismiss the claim of prohibited discrimination—the District Court agreed to dismiss, on the basis of the precedent established in the 2017 case Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital decided by the Eleventh Circuit (of which the District is part), and which held that the Civil Rights Act's Title VII does not include protection against discrimination towards sexual orientation.[14]

Bostock appealed to the Eleventh Circuit, where the three-judge panel affirmed the District Court's ruling in 2018.[15] The Eleventh Circuit relied on two prior cases: its previous ruling in Evans, and Blum v. Gulf Oil Corp. from the Fifth Circuit in 1976. In upholding the ruling, the Eleventh Circuit pointed to their ruling in Evans that dismissed the Supreme Court's precedent against sex discrimination set by Price Waterhouse and Oncale.[16]

The Eleventh Circuit's ruling in Evans conflicted with that of the Seventh Circuit in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana (2017) in which, by an 8–3 decision, the Circuit found that discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation violated Title VII.[17][18] The Second Circuit came to the same conclusion in Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc. (2018)[19][18] (Altitude Express). Thus the Eleventh Circuit, on the one hand, and the Second and Seventh Circuits, on the other, were divided on the question of the interpretation of Title VII. These cases and a related case, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,[20] (Harris Funeral Homes), in which the Sixth Circuit found Title VII also covered transgender employment discrimination,[21] set the stage for the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock.

Supreme Court

Protestors outside of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. on October 8, 2019, defending LGBT employment rights

Bostock petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari on the question of whether sexual orientation is covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Supreme Court certified the petition in April 2019,[22] and consolidated the case with Altitude Express. Between these cases, as well as prior Circuit court decisions, there had been a split of opinions on whether sexual orientation discrimination is covered by Title VII.[13] The combined Bostock and Altitude Express cases drew numerous amicus curiae briefs. Over thirty-six briefs were filed in support of Bostock and the estate of Zarda, including one signed by over 200 major corporations such as Amazon, the Walt Disney Company, and Coca-Cola, that asserted that it would not be "unreasonably costly or burdensome" for them to accept sexual orientation as a protected class under Title VII.[23][24] Over twenty five briefs were filed to support Clayton County and Altitude Express, among them, the U.S. Department of Justice that argued that sexual orientation was not covered, but asserted that "Congress of course remains free to legislate in this area; and employers, including governmental employers, remain free to offer greater protections to their workers than Title VII requires."[23][25]

Oral arguments in the consolidated cases were heard on October 8, 2019, alongside the arguments in Harris Funeral Homes, the case related to Title VII protections for transgender individuals.[21] Just prior to the hearings, police from the District of Columbia had discovered two suspicious packages near the Supreme Court building and temporarily cleared the plaza of arriving supporters to remove the packages.[26] In oral arguments, the statutory claims centered on the discrimination "because of . . . sex" language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.[27]

Decision

Majority opinion

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia.

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court in this case on June 15, 2020.[28] In a 6–3 decision, the Court held that Title VII protections pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(1)(a) did extend to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. The decision, then, involved the statutory interpretation of Title VII, not constitutional law as in other recent landmark cases involving the rights of LGBT individuals such as Obergefell v. Hodges.[29][30] Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, holding that a textual interpretation of Title VII means that the answer to the question of whether "an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender" is no.[31] Justice Gorsuch further held that Title VII protections against sex discrimination in the employment context apply to discrimination against particular individuals on the basis of sex, as opposed to discrimination against groups.[32] Thus, Title VII provides a remedy to individuals who experience discrimination on the basis of sex even if an employer's policy on the whole does not involve discrimination. Gorsuch wrote:

An employer who fired an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids. Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular result. But the limits of the drafters' imagination supply no reason to ignore the law's demands. Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit.[28]

Gorsuch's decision also alluded to concerns that the judgment may set a sweeping precedent that would force gender equality on traditional practices. "They say sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes will prove unsustainable after our decision today but none of these other laws are before us; we have not had the benefit of adversarial testing about the meaning of their terms, and we do not prejudge any such question today."[33]

Dissents

Justice Samuel Alito wrote a dissent, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas. In his dissent, Alito asserted that at the time of the crafting of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that the concepts of sexual orientation and transgender would have been unknown and thus Congress's language should not be implied to cover these facets. Alito wrote, "Many will applaud today’s decision because they agree on policy grounds with the Court’s updating of Title VII. But the question in these cases is not whether discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity should be outlawed. The question is whether Congress did that in 1964. It indisputably did not."[34] Alito further stated that "even if discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity could be squeezed into some arcane understanding of sex discrimination, the context in which Title VII was enacted would tell us that this is not what the statute's terms were understood to mean at that time."[35] Alito was critical of the majority decision:

There is only one word for what the Court has done today: legislation. The document that the Court releases is in the form of a judicial opinion interpreting a statute, but that is deceptive ... A more brazen abuse of our authority to interpret statutes is hard to recall. The Court tries to convince readers that it is merely enforcing the terms of the statute, but that is preposterous.[36]

In response to Alito's dissent, Justice Gorsuch wrote:

But to refuse enforcement just because... the parties before us happened to be unpopular at the time of the law's passage would not only require us to abandon our role as interpreters of statutes; it would tilt the scales of justice in favor of the strong or popular and neglect the promise that all persons are entitled to the benefit of the law's terms.[34]

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate dissent, arguing that the Court could not add sexual orientation or gender identity to Title VII due to the separation of powers, leaving this responsibility to Congress. He concluded by acknowledging that

Millions of gay and lesbian Americans have worked hard for many decades to achieve equal treatment in fact and law... They have advanced powerful policy arguments and can take pride in today's result. Under the Constitution's separation of powers, however, I believe that it was Congress's role, not this Court's, to amend Title VII.[35]

Reactions

The Supreme Court ruling was seen as a major victory for proponents of LGBT rights. Sarah Kate Ellis, the CEO of GLAAD, stated: "The Supreme Court's historic decision affirms what shouldn't have even been a debate: LGBT Americans should be able to work without fear of losing jobs because of who they are".[33] The Human Rights Campaign praised the decision, with the HRC President, Alphonso David, stating: "This is a landmark victory for LGBT equality. No one should be denied a job or fired simply because of who they are or whom they love. For the past two decades, federal courts have determined that discrimination on the basis of LGBT status is unlawful discrimination under federal law. Today's historic ruling by the Supreme Court affirms that view, but there is still work left to be done. In many aspects of the public square, LGBT people still lack non-discrimination protections, which is why it is crucial that Congress pass the Equality Act to address the significant gaps in federal civil rights laws and improve protections for everyone".[37] Torie Osborn stated that the decision in Bostock represented a more significant advance than same-sex marriage, calling it a "watershed."[38] Ken Mehlman took the decision as evidence that conservatism is not inconsistent with support for LGBT rights.[38]

Attorney Paul Smith, who argued Lawrence v. Texas (2003), stated that "[a]ny law, and I think there are dozens, that says you can’t discriminate because of sex is going to have a reckoning with this ruling";[39] indeed, Alito's dissent in Bostock notes that "[o]ver 100 federal statutes prohibit discrimination because of sex". American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer Joshua Block said that "[a]ll of the Trump administration's actions ['curtailing protections for transgender Americans'][39] have been built around this assertion that Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act] and Title IX [of the Education Amendments of 1972] provide no protections to LGBTQ people... [i]t's an Achilles' heel that's been built into every single thing they've done."[39]

Some Christian conservatives, including Russell D. Moore and Franklin Graham, expressed concern that the decision would impact religious freedoms and affect faith-based employment, but Gorsuch's opinion said that the scope of how this decision intersects with past precedent for religious freedom would likely be the subject of future cases at the Court.[40] Archbishop José Horacio Gómez, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (which had filed an amicus brief against Bostock), called the ruling an "injustice"[41] and said he was "deeply concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively redefined the legal meaning of 'sex' in our nation's civil rights law".[41] Franklin Graham said it was "a very sad day".[41]

Dan McLaughlin of the National Review postulated that Dixiecrat Howard W. Smith's insertion of the word "sex" in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had inadvertently protected sexual orientation and gender identity from employment discrimination.[42]

For Gerald Bostock, the only surviving plaintiff from all three cases, he stated that he was "proud to take part in a role to get us to this historic moment". The Supreme Court decision remanded his case to be reheard at the District Court.[43]

Political

Many politicians across the political spectrum praised the ruling:

  • President Donald Trump stated in response to the decision that "some people were surprised" but said that the court had "ruled and we live with their decision". He called the decision "very powerful".[44][45]
  • Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the ruling "secures critical protections for LGBT Americans across the country."[46]
  • Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio stated that the ruling was "a big deal" and emphasized that people should not be fired simply because of their sexual orientation.[47]

Some politicians, however, were critical of the ruling, such as Missouri Senator Josh Hawley who argued that the ruling was simply "policymaking".[48]

Commentary on Gorsuch

There had been some surprise to find Gorsuch, a conservative-leaning appointee under Trump, to have written the majority opinion supporting LGBT employment rights, typically a position against a conservative point of view.[49] However, political analysts found that the majority opinion was consistent with Gorsuch's prior textualism in statutory interpretation of the plain meaning of the law, following the same legal philosophy of Antonin Scalia, his predecessor in the Court.[35][50]

In an article published in Slate, Mark Joseph Stern stated that Gorsuch's argument "rests on textualism" and described it as "remarkably dismissive" of Justice Alito's dissenting opinion, in which Alito stated that Scalia would not have supported the Court's decision.[50] Stern agreed with Gorsuch, stating that "Alito does not want the court to stretch Title VII beyond its application—as expected by Congress in 1964—and that approach is not textualism", adding that Alito's opinion "elevates the alleged mental processes of long-dead lawmakers over the ordinary meaning of words".[50] Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, stated that "Justice Gorsuch employed a fundamentally conservative principle—a literal reading of the words of a statute—to reach a decision that contrasts sharply with the conclusions of the other conservative justices on the court".[44] According to an article published by CNN, Carrie Severino, a former law clerk of Justice Thomas, said that "Justice Scalia would be disappointed that his successor has bungled textualism so badly today, for the sake of appealing to college campuses and editorial boards".[35]

Jonathan Skrmetti, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee (which, with a number of other states, had filed an amicus brief on behalf of the employers in Bostock) observed that all three opinions in Bostock adopted a textualist approach.[51] Echoing a comment made by Justice Elena Kagan in memorializing Justice Scalia,[52] Skrmetti argued that Bostock shows "we really are all textualists now." He characterized Gorsuch's majority opinion in Bostock as "glorifying textualism in its narrowest literalist conception." Gorsuch's majority opinion, Skrmetti argues, means that this "narrow" form of textualism—which, on Skrmetti's view, does not look to legislative history or other potential sources of the meaning of the statute—is now ascendant. However, Skrmetti notes that where a statute is ambiguous, such tools might still be available to judges in interpreting statutes.[51]

See also

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