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The gradual acceptance and viability of homosexual and transgender Americans within mainstream society brought with it a steady number of court cases challenging discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or transgender status. This issue, specifically discrimination in the workplace, became the basis for a case that went before the Supreme Court in 2020, Bostock v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners. In a 6–3 vote, the justices decided that Title VII, a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bans discrimination against an employee based on “sex,” should apply to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers. Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh both wrote dissenting opinions, with Alito’s being joined by Clarence Thomas.
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- Marbury v. Madison
- Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
- Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Cohens v. Virginia
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
- United States v. Amistad
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Ableman v. Booth
- Ex parte Milligan
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- United States v. Cruikshank
- Reynolds v. United States
- Civil Rights Cases
- Elk v. Wilkins
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark
- Lochner v. New York
- Muller v. Oregon
- Frank v. Mangum
- Guinn v. United States
- Hammer v. Dagenhart
- Schenck v. United States
- Abrams v. United States
- Whitney v. California
- Olmstead v. United States
- Powell v. Alabama
- A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
- United States v. Curtiss-Wright
- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
- Cantwell v. Connecticut
- Wickard v. Filburn
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Korematsu v. United States
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Dennis v. United States
- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Gomillion v. Lightfoot
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Baker v. Carr
- Engel v. Vitale
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Katzenbach v. McClung
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Bond v. Floyd
- Miranda v. Arizona
- South Carolina v. Katzenbach
- Loving v. Virginia
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- New York Times Co. v. United States
- Flood v. Kuhn
- Furman v. Georgia
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
- Sierra Club v. Morton
- Roe v. Wade
- Milliken v. Bradley
- United States v. Nixon
- Craig v. Boren
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- Frontiero v. Richardson
- Texas v. Johnson
- United States v. Lopez
- United States v. Virginia
- Clinton v. Jones
- Bush v. Gore
- Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- Lawrence v. Texas
- District of Columbia v. Heller
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- Shelby County v. Holder
- Obergefell v. Hodges
- Bostock v. Clayton County
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization