Media Mentions

Nov 21, 2017

Scott Rabe and Sam Schwartz-Fenwick quoted in the National Law Journal

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Scott Rabe and Sam Schwartz-Fenwick's blog post, "TITLE VII: Court Breaks from Department of Justice on Transgender Rights,” was referenced in a November 21 story from the National Law Journal, "The US Justice Department Retreated From a Transgender Professor's Case. She Still Won." The nearly $1.2 million jury verdict Monday for a transgender professor in Oklahoma followed a years-long battle in which the U.S. Justice Department—once a plaintiff in the case—retreated from the dispute in the Trump administration, highlighting the increasingly complex landscape for gender identity discrimination complaints. The Seyfarth team wrote that employers should be vigilant in establishing and maintaining nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policies that extend protections to individuals on the basis of gender identity.