Rapid Reaction — Supreme Court Protects LGBTQ Employees
A big Supreme Court decision just arrived, and it's comprehensively awesome. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court confirmed that "an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law." In this emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo react to the decision — written by Neil Gorsuch, of all people — and the extremely salty dissent.
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A big Supreme Court decision just arrived, and it’s comprehensively awesome. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court confirmed that “an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” In this emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo react to the decision—written by Neil Gorsuch, of all people—and the extremely salty dissent.
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