In an amicus brief filed Monday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to rehear en banc a high-stakes case decided in July about whether discrimination based on sexual orientation is covered by federal civil rights law.
With its brief supporting the plaintiff in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, the commission joins numerous other amici, from the American Civil Liberties Union, to members of U.S. Congress, in asserting that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination based on sexual orientation counts as discrimination based on sex and is therefore illegal in the workplace.
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