Champion Lesbian Hockey Coach Gets Her Day In Court

Five-time NCAA National Championship-winning women’s hockey coach Shannon Miller will go to trial on her claim that the University of Minnesota–Duluth didn’t renew her coaching contract because of her sex. But Miller won’t be able to litigate whether her sexual orientation had anything to do with it, the U.S. District Court for Minnesota ordered.

The ruling is the latest to reinforce a federal circuit split on whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against sexual-orientation discrimination. The Seventh Circuit opened the door to such claims in its 2017 Hivley decision. The First Circuit recently upheld a ...