Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Respondent
Noel J. Francisco, Counsel of Record
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a respondent in this case because it originally had supported Aimee Stephens’s Federal sex-discrimination case. On October 4, 2017, the Trump Administration reversed the official Government position that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covered discrimination based on “gender identity.” The EEOC then switched sides in the Stephens case and backed the right of her employer to fire her. Noel J. Francisco was nominated to be solicitor general by President Donald Trump on March 7, 2017, and was confirmed …
