Kyra Kyles and Lolita Pierce v. J.K. Guardian Security Services, Inc., D/B/A Guardian Security Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the language of § 2000e-5 “signals a congressional intent to extend standing to the outermost limits of Article III”
• recognizing provisions of the Fair Housing Act that forbid false statements that housing is unavailable to a person because of his race
• finding that employment discrimination “testers” who were discriminated against had standing to sue under Title VII even if they were not interested in employment
• explaining that the two statutes are “functional equivalent[s]” and thus “are given like construction and application”
• stating that the tester plaintiffs’ goal was, at most, to have “the opportunity to decline an offer of employment”
• explaining that statutory standing “depends in great measure on the particular rights conferred”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).