
The screenings took place over the past few years, according to the Journal, and included inquiries about past drug use and other sensitive issues. Other female workers who applied to the office said they'd been asked if they had ever "danced for dollars" or had an affair, the publication said, adding that the questions were posed by a third-party security firm, called Concentric Advisors, which is known for working with family offices. Some women who applied for jobs at Gates Ventures, the billionaire's private family office that handles his investments, said that the questions included queries about their past sexual experiences, if they had naked pictures of themselves on their phone, what kind of porn they liked to watch, or if they had a sexually transmitted disease, the Journal reported. It often indicates a user profile.īill Gates' private office had a screening process in which the firm asked some female candidates sexually explicit questions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. There did not appear to be any reference to the issue in the court’s decision.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Smith’s Supreme Court filings briefly mentioned she received at least one request to create a website celebrating the wedding of a same-sex couple. “Any claim that Lorie will never receive a request to create a custom website celebrating a same-sex ceremony is no longer legitimate because Lorie has received such a request,” they said.

In February 2017 they said even though she did not need a request in order to pursue the case, she had received one. Her lawyers maintained Smith did not have to be punished for violating the law before challenging it.


Weiser didn’t know the specifics of Stewart’s denial, but said the nation’s high court should not have addressed the lawsuit’s merits “without any basis in reality.”Ībout a month after the case was filed in federal court challenging an anti-discrimination law in Colorado, lawyers for the state said Smith had not been harmed by the law as they moved to dismiss the case. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Friday called the lawsuit a “made up case” because Smith wasn’t offering wedding website services when the suit was filed.
