Courts Weighing LGBT Job Bias Claims While SCOTUS Dallies

Cases testing whether federal law protects workers from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation are still tying up lower courts, even as the U.S. Supreme Court tries to decide whether it wants to take on the issue.

A lesbian assistant manager who claims Walmart discriminated against her and subjected her to a hostile work environment shouldn’t be allowed to move forward, Walmart told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Jan. 24. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit doesn’t consider sexual orientation a protected class under Title VII, it said.

And a straight ...