Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates April 1998 No. 1 Vol. 1
Foreword

Same-Sex Harassment

Civil Rights Law and Workplace Discrimination

Foreword

For over 30 years, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act has regulated how employees and employers can interact in the workplace. It has prohibited discrimination in offices and shops across the country, preventing men from unreasonably firing or sexually harassing their female subordinates and vice versa. In case after case, the Supreme Court has interpreted the statute in a broad manner, writing in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986), for example, that the legislation was crafted "to strike at the entire spectrum of disparate treatment of men and women in employment." Until this term, however, the Supreme Court has…

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