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(15 Jun 2020) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative court.
The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
"An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court. "Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."
Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas dissented.
The outcome is expected to have a big impact for the estimated 8.1 million LGBT workers across the country because most states don't protect them from workplace discrimination.
An estimated 11.3 million LGBT people live in the U.S., according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA law school.
In a case from Georgia, the federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled against Gerald Bostock, a gay employee of Clayton County, in the Atlanta suburbs.
Bostock claimed he was fired in 2013 because he is gay.
The county argues that Bostock was let go because of the results of an audit of funds he managed.
"I'm overwhelmed with... with emotion and gratitude. And I look forward to my next steps. And I'm happy to celebrate this victory, as I said, with the entire LGBTQ community. And again, hope it serves as a little bit of light. And what we've been referring to is kind of some dark days," Bostock told the Associated Press in an interview after Monday's ruling.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Bostock's claim in a three-page opinion that noted the court was bound by a 1979 decision that held "discharge for homosexuality is not prohibited by Title VII."

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