Webinar: Bostock and The First Amendment: The Rights of LGBTQ+ Employees in the Religious Workplace

In 2020, the Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County determined that discrimination against gay and transgender employees is discrimination on the basis of sex—leaving open the question whether, and how, this issue might be addressed in a case involving religious employers. In this session, two civil-rights attorneys—both counsel for the plaintiff in Doe v. Catholic Relief Services, a recent case in the District of Maryland—and counsel from Americans United for Separation of Church and State will provide an overview of the federal law protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ employees, the defenses being raised by religious employers and the progress they are making in the courts, and insight into the way some state courts are addressing these same issues.

Presented by the Federal Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Law Section and Civil Rights Law Section.  

About the Presenters

Lauren DiMartino, Associate, Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP
Lauren A. DiMartino is an associate at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP (“BGL”). Lauren represents clients across various areas of civil rights law, including fair housing, education and disability rights, police misconduct, and workplace discrimination. Much of Lauren’s legal experience has centered on education equity, constitutional law, anti-discrimination, and government misconduct, utilizing civil rights legislation like the Fair Housing Act and Title VII to assist individuals impacted by discriminatory conduct and to challenge systems perpetuating segregation. Prior to joining BGL, Lauren was in Nashville clerking for Judge Martha Craig Daughtry on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was previously the Legal Fellow at the University of Colorado School of Law’s Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. Lauren graduated from the City University of New York School of Law, a public-interest program, with a concentration in Social Justice, Equality, and Civil Rights. She has been published in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, CUNY Law Review, FBA Civil Rights Insider, and Forbes Civic Nation. Prior to becoming an attorney, Lauren worked in marketing before transitioning to work in New York City community colleges because of her commitment to racial and economic justice. She worked as an academic counselor and the Assistant Director of ASAP, an accelerated education program aimed at removing systemic barriers to obtaining a degree. She was inspired by her students to attend law school as a tool to better advocate for marginalized communities. She remains active in higher education work and is on the Advisory Boards of the Urban Studies Program at Guttman Community College (CUNY) and of Baltimore Youth Arts.

Bradley Girard, Litigation Counsel, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Bradley Girard is the Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State (“AU”). Bradley returned to AU after serving as the Steven Gey Constitutional Litigation Fellow from 2015-17. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law in 2014. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Neal E. Kravitz on the D.C. Superior Court and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey. Immediately before returning to AU, Bradley was the clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, where he taught students public-interest impact litigation in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S Supreme Court. He also earned an LLM in advocacy. During law school, Bradley interned at Gupta Wessler, Public Justice, Mehri & Skalet, and in the civil-rights division of the Institute for Public Representation. He also interned on the D.C. District Court, in the chambers of the Honorable Gladys Kessler. Bradley has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Law360, and SCOTUSblog.

Anthony May, Associate, Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP
Anthony May is an associate at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP. He has represented clients in a variety of complex litigation matters including assisting employees with disabilities in obtaining accessible technology and accommodations in the workplace, representing individuals who have been wrongfully convicted, commercial litigation disputes, and fighting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Prior to joining the firm, Anthony was the Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. Appellate Advocacy Fellow at The Public Justice Center, where he represented indigent clients, authored amicus briefs, and argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Maryland appellate courts on various anti-poverty and civil rights cases. He clerked on the Appellate Court of Maryland (formerly known as the Maryland Court of Special Appeals) for the Honorable Deborah Sweet Eyler (Ret.). While attending law school, Anthony worked as a law clerk at Brown Goldstein & Levy, was the Executive Symposium Editor of the Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class, a semi-finalist in the ABA Labor & Employment Law Trial Competition, and a Legal Writing Fellow. Anthony is a graduate of the University of Akron and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

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