 The county sought to dismiss the claim of prohibited discrimination—the District Court agreed to dismiss, on the basis of the precedent established in the 2017 case "Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital" decided by the Eleventh Circuit (of which the District is part), and which held that the Civil Rights Act's Title VII does not include protection against discrimination towards sexual orientation.Bostock appealed to the Eleventh Circuit, where the three-judge panel affirmed the District Court's ruling in 2018.The Eleventh Circuit relied on two prior cases