A female employee and her (now) spouse are hired as elementary teachers and rece

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A female employee and her (now) spouse are hired as elementary teachers and receive the highest level evaluation for the year. At the end of the school year, the principal calls the two into her office with both their résumés on the desk and says she noticed they both went to the same art school, and have had the same address for 30 years, so one of them must leave, and the two must decide between them which one. One left the school, and the other is constantly harassed, publicly intimidated, and humiliated by the principal. Is this a sufficient basis for a Title VII claim? [Boutillier v. Hartford Pub. Schools, No. 3:2013cv01303-Doc 58 (D. Conn. 2016)]

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Title VII speaks about employment discrimination among the employees based on race, color, sex, gender, or religion and Individual's sexual orientation. The given case is the same, i.e. discrimination of the employee based on their sexual orientation and the principal harassing one of them with the same openion. Hence, it comes under Title VII of civil rights act, 1991 only.

The disctrict court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation in the given case.

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