Muller v. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[ejxtending the reach of the anti-discrimination law to employment decisions based on to whom a person is married would change the focus of the law from discrimination based on broad categories ... to a highly individual factor”
• applying plain meaning absent convincing evidence of a contrary legislative purpose
• defining marital status as \condition of being married or unmarried\
• listing cases on each side of the issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).