5th Circuit Affirms Firing Over Facebook Post Did Not Violate Title VII

Mealey's (April 22, 2019, 10:53 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Sexual orientation is not a protected category under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority found April 19, affirming a trial court’s dismissal of a woman’s claim that she was discriminated against by her employer over an anti-LGBT Facebook post because she is heterosexual (Bonnie M. O’Daniel v. Industrial Service Solutions, et al., No. 18-30136, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 11458)....