House GOP leaders say those laws are at risk of being struck down by the courts ... Rep. Brian Lohse of Bondurant joined all Democrats in voting against the bill. Rep. Ross Wilburn, D-Ames ...

Brian Lohse, a Republican from Bondurant ... and employment discrimination under a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed the federal prohibition on sex discrimination in Title VII ...

Brian Lohse, R-Bondurant ... housing and employment discrimination under a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed the federal prohibition on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil ...

The federal government ... Ross Wilburn of Ames opposed the measure. Later that day, the full House Judiciary Committee ...

Brian Lohse, a Republican from Bondurant ... Additional states have adopted a federal legal framework that says gender identity discrimination is prohibited under federal sex-based employment ...

Federal circuit courts disagree on the application of the background circumstances rule that the lower court applied to Ames’s case. Ames is asking the Supreme Court to address this circuit split and ...

When Marlean Ames tried to sue the Ohio Department ... That’s a test created in 1981 by a federal appeals court that is used by some, but not most, of the federal courts when assessing claims ...

THAT RULING JUST CAME DOWN FROM A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT. DAMICO FIEGENSCHUH SUED OFFICERS RYAN STEINKAMP AND BRIAN MOYNIHAN, CLAIMING THEY VIOLATED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. COURT RECORDS SAY ...

Ames argued the department discriminated against her on the basis of sexual orientation. A federal district court ruled for the Ohio Department of Youth Services, finding that the department ...

Ames sued and brought her case to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the justices will hear oral arguments on whether a federal appeals court improperly required her to meet a more stringent standard ...

For several years, Ames’s case made its way through the U.S. court system before landing ... One needn’t have a law degree to see that a federal law designed to ensure the equal treatment ...