The Bounds of Sex - The Supreme Court's Review Next Term of Title VII's Breadth
ABA Section of Litigation
LGBT Law & Litigator Committee
Commercial & Business Litigation Committee
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
12:00-1:00 PM PT | 1:00-2:00 PM MT | 2:00 -3:00 PM CT | 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Program Description:
On April 22, the Supreme Court accepted review of three cases that present the issue of whether the prohibition of employment discrimination on account of sex under Title VII extends to sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.
In honor of Pride Month, Joshua Matz, Counsel at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, a former law clerk to Justice Kennedy and Supreme Court practitioner; joined by a Cory Struble, an associate at Quinn Emanuel, who is a litigator and has been involved Title VII litigation raising this issue; and Jocelyn Samuels, the Executive Director of the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School, a premier LGBTQ think tank, will discuss the impact of such discrimination on workers, strategies to appeal to the Justices, potential outcomes and their impact on litigation strategies to protect LGBTQ workers and to pursue other LGBTQ rights protections. The Roundtable will be moderated by MC Sungaila, a partner at Haynes & Boone and appellate practitioner.