Landmark LGBT Ruling Has Expansive Reach at Work and Beyond

The legal impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s year-old expansion of LGBT worker rights has stretched into a wide range of employment discrimination areas and driven attempts to push legal boundaries in education and health care.

More than 300 cases have cited to the high court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga., in the past year, according to Bloomberg Law’s BCITE analysis tool. These include litigation outside of the LGBT realm, with one of the more prominent issues focusing on how employees prove race, age, and other discrimination.

An ongoing lawsuit against Whole Foods Market Inc., for ...