Fired Gay Employee Asks High Court To Find Protection Under Title VII

Mealey's (June 22, 2018, 7:52 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former Georgia county employee who claims that he was fired from his job due to his sexual orientation filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on May 25 asking the high court justices to resolve a circuit split and decide whether sexual orientation discrimination falls under the protections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Gerald Lynn Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, No. 17-1618, U.S. Sup.)....