U.S. Supreme Court docket requires Yeshiva College to permit LGBT pupil membership By Reuters

(Reuters) – Yeshiva College can’t bar a LGBT pupil membership after the U.S. Supreme Court docket on Wednesday refused to dam a decide’s ruling ordering the Jewish college in New York Metropolis to formally acknowledge the group.

The justices, in a 5-4 choice, declined to placed on maintain a state court docket ruling {that a} metropolis anti-discrimination regulation required it to acknowledge Y.U. Pleasure Alliance as a pupil membership, whereas the varsity pursues an enchantment in a decrease court docket. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor had briefly blocked the decrease court docket’s order final Friday whereas the justices thought-about the college’s request.