Hively v. Ivy Tech Commu...

We noted news of the ruling in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College in Morning Docket, and additional coverage can be found via How Appealing (here and here). The judgement of the district court is REVERSED and the case is REMANDED for further proceedings.” Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College (USA) — GIW Hively-Ivy-Tech — April 4, 2017 decision Caution As of: February 4, 2020 10:57 PM Z Hively v. Ivy Tech Cmty. Yesterday, in Hively v.Ivy Tech Community College, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit became the first federal appeals court to rule that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sexual orientation discrimination.This is a groundbreaking decision. Now represented by the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Hively has appealed to this court. The parties in Hively v. Ivy Tech, 3:14-cv-1791, filed a joint mediation summary statement Aug. 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, announcing the settlement. Kimberly Hively was fired for being a lesbian. Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. In August 2015, Hively filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana against South Bend, Indiana-based Ivy Tech, claiming the school was violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against her because of her sexual orientation, a form of sex discrimination. From 2000–2014 Kimberly Hively worked part-time as an adjunct professor at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana. LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination Ruling: Who Exactly Is Affected? A summary and case brief of Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, 853 F.3d 339 (2017), including the facts, issue, rule of law, holding and reasoning, key terms, and concurrences and dissents. The court did so not by creating a sixth protected trait, but by ruling that sexual orientation discrimination is sex discrimination. court granted Ivy Tech’s motion and dismissed Hively’s case with prejudice. LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination Ruling: Who Exactly Is Affected? College of Ind. 4, 2017) : for decades, the circuits have regularly rejected all claims of LGBTQ discrimination under Title VII, on the ground that "sex" - in 1964 - would have meant only binary male-female biological identity. Apr. Yet it began, as is so often the case, with the story of a single ordinary person willing to fight for her rights. Hively v. Ivy Tech Cmty. It has no authority to do so. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit November 30, 2016, Argued; April 4, 2017, Decided 15-1720 (7th Cir.