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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)

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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Effective Date
2020-06-15

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Long before Title VII was adopted, many pioneering state and federal laws had used language substantively indistinguishable from Title VII's critical phrase, "discrimination because of sex." For example, the California Constitution of 1879 stipulated that no one, "on account of sex , [could] be disqualified from entering upon or pursuing any lawful business, vocation, or profession." Art. XX, § 18 (emphasis added). It also prohibited a student's exclusion from any state university department "on account of sex." Art. IX, § 9; accord, Mont. Const., Art. XI, § 9 (1889).