Get a Divorce or Lose Your Job
Shelly Fitzgerald, a guidance counselor for 15 years at her alma mater Catholic high school, was given an ultimatum: resign, dissolve her marriage to her wife, stay quiet and let her contract lapse at year’s end, or be fired. AU represented Shelly against her former school, which claimed that it had a right to fire her despite her secular position and being protected by anti-discrimination laws.