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Jul 2023
29m 55s

The Court's Blow to LGBTQ Rights

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Professor Katherine Franke, Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to create wedding pages for same-sex couples. Labor & employment attorney Nicholas Pappas, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, discusses New York City’s new law requiring businesses that use artificial intelligence in hiring to show the process was free from bias. June Grasso hosts.

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