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Does the Civil Rights Act protect LGBT workers? The Supreme Court is about to decide

  • Written by Julie Manning Magid, Professor of Business Law, Indiana University

The complicated history of the Civil Rights Act in the U.S. is about to get even more so.

In 1964, the act – specifically, Title VII of the act – made it illegal for employers to discriminate based on race, religion and sex, among other things.

In October 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court heard three cases that raise the question whether the...

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