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Loren AliKhan is the Solicitor General for the District of Columbia. Next month, the Supreme Court will hear argument in three cases asking whether Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago.
Andrée Sophia Blumstein is the Solicitor General of Tennessee. Word is out that the Title VII trilogy set for argument in the Supreme Court on October 8 — Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia; Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC — is crucially significant because the court will decide the scope of workplace protection for LGBT employees.
Vanita Gupta is President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Sharon McGowan is Chief Strategy Officer and Legal Director of Lambda Legal.
Stephanie N. Taub is Senior Counsel and Michael Berry is Chief of Staff for First Liberty Institute. It would be difficult to imagine, in 1964, when Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex, that Congress understood those words to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
William N. Eskridge, Jr., is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.
On Monday, October 7, the first Monday in October, the justices of the Supreme Court will return to the bench for the first oral arguments of the new term. The next day, the court will tackle a trio of cases that could prove to be some of the biggest of the term.