The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may not be finished with the question of whether a person can be terminated from a job because of sexual orientation and style of dress, despite upholding the dismissal of the case on Friday.
“This is not the end,” attorney Greg Nevins said Monday. Nevins is director of the Employment Fairness Project for Lambda Legal, a civil rights organization devoted to equal rights for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. Nevins said Monday he plans to ask the court to review the case en banc. If the judges grant the request and agree to sit down together to hear the case again, they would automatically void the decision released Friday that split a three judge panel.
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