July 29, 2015
A Michigan funeral home accused of illegally firing a worker for being transgender ripped the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to curtail discovery in a bias suit Tuesday, arguing it needs the information to defend itself against the agency's claims.
July 15, 2015
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has asked a Michigan federal court to protect a transgender funeral director from "intrusive, oppressive, annoying and embarrassing" discovery requests in one of the agency's first suits targeting gender bias against transgender workers, saying the information was irrelevant.
April 22, 2015
A funeral home company must face one of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's first sex-discrimination cases over a transgender employee's firing, but not because transgender status alone brings special legal protection, a Michigan federal judge ruled Tuesday.
November 20, 2014
A Michigan-based funeral home that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission targeted for one of its first-ever gender bias suits for transgender workers urged a Michigan federal court on Wednesday to nix the suit, saying that the woman is not a member of a protected class.
September 29, 2014
With suits alleging discrimination against transgender employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the first time pushed into litigation its stance that gender identity bias violates civil rights law, a position that attorneys say marks a natural progression from prior gender identity cases that courts will likely take up.