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BELLEVILLE — Beleaguered St. Clair County judge Ronald R. Duebbert on Tuesday told the judicial discipline authority that he misled police about his contact with a murder suspect because he “was petrified.”
IOWA CITY — A court has ruled for a Christian campus group that said the University of Iowa acted unlawfully when it said the group’s policies violated school policy.
PORTLAND, Ore. — On Friday, Lambda Legal called on the Oregon Court of Appeals once again to affirm its 2017 opinion on a ruling by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) that the owners of a Portland-area bakery violated the state’s nondiscrimination statutes when they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.
RICHMOND, Va. — Lambda Legal, the MMAA, formerly OutServe-SLDN Winston & Strawn LLP have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to uphold a preliminary injunction that prevents the Trump administration from continuing with discharge proceedings against members of the U.S. Air Force living with HIV.
PHOENIX – The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday issued a 4-3 decision reversing a lower court ruling that had denied a Phoenix business owners’ request that they be exempt from the City of Phoenix anti-discrimination ordinance and instead be allowed to refuse service to same-sex couples.
MOKENA — Justin Bakker, a former firefighter and paramedic with the Mokena Fire District, has filed a lawsuit against the district alleging sex discrimination and sex harassment.
CHICAGO — Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Peoria) has reached an agreement with prosecutors to be officially cleared on corruption charges.
CHICAGO — Two Illinois Department of Corrections officers accused in lawsuit of civil rights violations against a transgender woman publicly shared memes or other posts that mocked members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
WASHINGTON — GOP members of Congress and state attorneys general have filed a brief telling the U.S. Supreme Court that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not protect LGBTQ people. On Tuesday, NBC OUT reported that 48 members of Congress and 15 AGs had filed two separate briefs. Last month, Illinois was one of 21 state AGs filing a brief saying that LGBTQ people were protected from discrimination for employment. Corporations and advocacy organizations have also filed briefs with similar arguments.
NBC OUT said that 153 Congressional Democrats had also filed a brief arguing if “a man is discriminated against in the workplace because he dates men, but his female co-workers who also date men are not discriminated against for the same conduct, sex is clearly both a ‘but for’ cause and a motivating factor in that discrimination.”
The news website said both briefs argue that only Congress has the power to ban LGBTQ discrimination. Similar briefs were filed by the U.S. Justice Department last week.
Three cases, Altitude Express v. Zarda; Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia; and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, that deal with job discrimination for LGBTQ are up before the Supreme Court in October.