The US Supreme Court has unanimously sided with Marlean Ames, an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work ...

Marlean Ames filed a reverse discrimination lawsuit in 2020 after she lost out on two jobs to colleagues who were gay at the ...

The Supreme Court unanimously determined that an Ohio woman can move forward with her complaint that a state agency passed ...

The Supreme Court's decision, which landed amid a backlash to diversity programs, could increase "reverse discrimination" ...

Ordinarily, Title VII discrimination suits are resolved through what’s called a burden-shifting framework. Initially, the ...

A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, sidin ...

The court’s ruling in favor of a woman who says she was passed over for jobs because she is straight is correct in theory—but ...

On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services in which the Plaintiff ...

In a 9-0 decision authored by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the high court ruled that plaintiff Marlean Ames did not have to meet a higher burden of proof to prove that she was ...

The case concerns a claim brought by Marlean Ames, who said she was treated unfairly at work because she is straight.

In a unanimous ruling, the justices revived Marlean Ames’ Title VII case, claiming she was demoted for being heterosexual.