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Textualism and Bostock
Your Witness blog
  • Matthew W. Green, Jr., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
  • Nelson Lund, George Mason University
Document Type
Blog Posting
Publication Date
11-18-2021
Keywords
  • civil rights,
  • LGBTQ,
  • sex discrimination,
  • Bostock,
  • Title VII
Abstract

On June 15, 2020, in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts protects employees from discrimination because they may be gay or transgender. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion was an exercise in a textual interpretation of the statute’s language. His opinion has engendered serious debate over his method of statutory interpretation. Matthew Green, Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Nelson Lund, University Professor at George Mason University offer differing and illuminating evaluations of the cogency of Gorsuch’s analysis. Both agree, however, that irrespective of the policy outcome, the key issue is whether the Court’s constitutional and statutory analysis is correct.

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Matthew W. Green and Nelson Lund. "Textualism and Bostock" Your Witness blog (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew_green/16/