HCA Recruitment Worker’s Gay Bias Suit Revived Under Changed Law

A gay employee saw his claims that HCA Healthcare discriminated against and harassed him based on his sexual orientation revived by the Sixth Circuit under the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which found federal sex bias law bars anti-LGBT bias.

The justices’ June 15 decision was handed down about a year after a lower court granted summary judgment to HCA Human Resources on former recruitment administrator Montrell Kilpatrick’s sex-based discrimination and hostile work environment claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said. ...