Tag Archives: Sexual Orientation Discrimination

DOMA’S DEMISE GIVES BIRTH TO NEW EMPLOYEE RIGHTS

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It’s amazing how fast the landscape has changed with regard to the rights of our fellow citizens in same sex relationships.  Only 27 years ago, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court upheld a state law criminalizing sodomy.    Some 10 years later, in 1996 President Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), […]

Pushing the Boundaries of the Law

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that investigates claims of employment discrimination, doesn’t actually have a physical office in Maine.  Its closest office is Boston.  But that didn’t stop several EEOC representatives from Boston and New York from coming up to Maine last Monday to address Mainers about the work the EEOC […]