Executive Summary: Overruling prior circuit precedent, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held today that sexual orientation discrimination is a subset of sex discrimination under Title VII. In reaching this conclusion, the Second Circuit joins the Seventh Circuit, deepening a split among the federal appeals courts, as the majority of these courts have held that Title VII does not prohibit sexual orientation discrimination
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