Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the government may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-based classification?

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the government may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-based classification as the Fourth and Seventh Circuits held, or not an important governmental interest as the Tenth Circuit (and this Court) held? Is the all-encompassing sex and gender classification of “female,” provided in Ocean City’s ordinance, sufficiently tailored to achieve an important governmental interest? ii PARTIES TO PROCEEDINGS Petitioners Chelsea C. Eline, Megan A. Bryant, Rose R. MacGregor, Christine E. Coleman, and Angela A. Urban, were the plaintiffs in the district court proceedings and appellants in the court of appeals proceedings. Respondent, Town of Ocean City, Maryland, along with additional defendants, Richard W. Meehan, Joseph J. Theobald, and Ross C. Buzzuro, were the defendants in the district court proceedings. Town of Ocean City, Maryland was the appellee in the court of appeals proceedings. RELATED CASES ¢ ~=Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Richard W. Meehan, et al., No. 1:18-CV-00145, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Judgment entered April 7, 2020. ¢ Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland, No. 20-1530, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judgment entered August 4, 2021. Motion for Rehearing and Rehearing en banc denied September 2, 2021.