Supreme Court Decisions Archives - Kollman & Saucier P.A.

The Potential Impact of the Supreme Court Overruling Chevron

Kollman & Saucier

07/10/2024

Agency Activity, Legal Developments, Supreme Court Decisions

As early as middle school, we become familiar with the functions of the three branches of government. The legislative branch makes laws, the judicial branch interprets them, and the executive branch enforces them. Perhaps this simplified description is best for teaching young students, but the reality is far more complicated. The federal bureaucracy is sometimes referred to as the “Fourth Branch.” The bureaucracy consists of fifteen Cabinet...

Kollman & Saucier

06/29/2023

Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden, Religious Discrimination, Supreme Court Decisions

On June 29, 2023 the United States Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. ___ (2023). This highly anticipated decision changes the individual assessment employers must use when evaluating a request for accommodation for religious reasons and whether the accommodation is reasonable or creates an undue hardship. While this is one of several highly anticipated rulings from the high court this summer, it is not...

Peter Saucier

06/01/2023

Supreme Court Decisions, Union Activity

Decades ago, the Supreme Court interpreted the National Labor Relations Act to afford unions and strikers special immunity from state court liability for damages resulting from a strike. Named after a 1959 Supreme Court decision, that so-called Garmon exemption doctrine, in the words of the Supreme Court, “tells us not just what law applies (federal law, not state law) but who applies it (the National Labor Relations Board, not the state courts or...

Peter Saucier

01/24/2023

Supreme Court Decisions, Union Activity

Industrial concrete, once prepared, must be poured and set promptly. Glacier Concrete, a mid-sized company in Washington state, sends mixer trucks filled with concrete to jobsites every day. In 2017, some 13 mixer trucks filled with concrete were on the road when the Teamsters Union called a strike among the drivers of Glacier Concrete. Many of the mixer truck drivers returned their trucks to the company yard, filled with wet concrete, and walked...

Kollman & Saucier

07/07/2021

Sex Discrimination, Supreme Court Decisions, Virginia Employment Law

On June 28, 2021, the Supreme Court denied the Gloucester County, Virginia School Board’s petition to review Gloucester Co. Sch'l Bd. v. Grimm, No. 20-1163. The denial leaves a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ s ruling intact, making it unlawful in this jurisdiction (South Carolina, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia) to prohibit students from using bathroom facilities that align with their gender identity....

Kollman & Saucier

06/16/2020

Employment Discrimination, Same-Sex Marriage, Sex Discrimination, Supreme Court Decisions

In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Title VII protections extend to gay and transgender employees. The Bostock case was a consolidation of three cases wherein an employee was terminated for being homosexual or transgender. Gerald Bostock was fired shortly after joining a gay recreational softball league. Donald Zarda was terminated shortly after he announced being gay. Aimee Stephens was fired after informing her...

Kollman & Saucier

10/11/2019

Supreme Court Decisions

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three soon-to-be landmark cases concerning LGBTQ rights under Title VII: Bostock v. Clayton County (No. 17-1618); Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda (No. 17-1623); and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. EEOC (18-107). Bostock and Zarda concern whether sexual orientation is protected under Title VII, while R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes questions whether Title VII...

Frank Kollman

10/02/2019

Employment Discrimination, Gender Identity, Supreme Court Decisions

On October 8, the Supreme Court will hear arguments whether gender identity is a protected classification under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, in addition to sex, race, color, religion, and national origin. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al., No. 18-107. Whatever the Court decides, its opinion could have a profound impact on dress codes in the workplace. The case before the Court...

Kollman & Saucier

06/03/2019

Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies, Supreme Court Decisions

The Supreme Court held today in a unanimous opinion that the charge-filing requirement in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not jurisdictional. Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis, No. 18-525 (June 3, 2019). Title VII prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, as well as retaliation against those who engage in protected activity. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e–2(a)(1); § 2000e–3(a)....

Kollman & Saucier

04/24/2019

Sexual Orientation, Supreme Court Decisions

On April 22, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorariin three cases relating to Title VII’s coverage (or noncoverage) of workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or transgender status. Those cases are Bostock v. Clayton County, GA(No. 17-1618), Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda(No. 17-1623), and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC (No. 18-107). The Court consolidated Bostockand Zarda, which both concern whether...

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The Potential Impact of the Supreme Court Overruling Chevron

Groff v. DeJoy: Employers Have A Clarified Standard For Their Duty To Provide Reasonable Accommodations

Union Misconduct During A Strike May Result In State Court Liability

Frozen Concrete – How Much Does Labor Law Protect “Sabotage”?

Fourth Circuit Decision Protecting Transgender Student Rights Stands After Supreme Court Denies Review

Supreme Court Rules That Gay and Transgender Employees Are Protected Under Title VII

Supreme Court Hears Arguments In LGBTQ-Title VII Cases

Gender Identity Bias and Employer Dress Codes

Supreme Court Holds That Title VII’s Charge-Filing Requirement Is Not Jurisdictional

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari On LGBT Discrimination Issues

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