The opportunity for an individual to secure employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, physical or mental disability, religion, age, ancestry, national origin or familial status is recognized as and declared to be a civil right.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 5, § 4571
Right to freedom from discrimination in employment
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Walton v. Nalco Chemical Co. (2001)
Most recently applied in Benson v. Wal-Mart Stores East L.P. (September 2021)
PL 1971, c. 501, §1 (NEW)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Maine Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Maine statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.