Skydiving instructor Donald Zarda claimed he was fired by Altitude Express Inc. because he was gay. He argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion also includes sexual orientation. Zarda, who sued in 2010, died in a base-jumping accident in Switzerland in 2014. His estate and relatives carried on with the case.
A panel of three appeals court judges ruled against Zarda in April. He was granted a rehearing before the full appeals court, which has authority over federal courts in New York, Connecticut and Vermont. In the majority opinion, Katzmann said sexual-orientation stereotyping falls within Title VII’s prohibition against discrimination “because sex is necessarily a factor in sexual orientation.”
Ten judges agreed on the result of the case, although five disagreed with the majority’s reasoning. Three dissented from the outcome.
How in the fuck did they read sexual orientation into the civil rights act?
Cooper Ortiz
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Camden Williams
In a majority opinion joined at least in part by eight other judges, Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann wrote, “Since 1964, the legal framework for evaluating Title VII claims has evolved substantially,” adding that it now included expanded protections against discrimination based on factors like “sex stereotypes.” The opinion said that the law should be read to include sexual orientation.
“Sexual orientation discrimination is a subset of sex discrimination because sexual orientation is defined by one’s sex in relation to the sex of those to whom one is attracted,” Judge Katzmann wrote, “making it impossible for an employer to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation without taking sex into account.”
Jaxson Brooks
Sex in the context of the civil rights act is gender, not sexual orientation.
I love it when activist judges take something that was already cancer and make it worse.
There is just no fucking way to look at the intent of the legislators at the time the Civil Rights Act was made and to draw the conclusion that it was their intent to bring sexual orientation into the scope of the act. The judges are just making shit up from the bench.
Thomas Peterson
>(((Katzmann)))
Every time.
Jose Adams
Now all we need to do is bring back segregation and take the vote away from women and we can get this 56% shithole back on track
See It is supposed to be rule of law not rule by men. Instead of applying the law as it is or as it was written they change it from the bench to make the law what they want it to be.
