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Supreme Court sides with straight Ohio woman who claimed workplace discrimination
June 5, 202510:34 AM ET
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NPR Washington Desk
Marlean Ames in her lawyer's office in Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 20. Ames
claims she was passed over for jobs because she is a straight woman and
that gay people were given positions she was more qualified for.
Maddie McGarvey for The Washington Post via Getty Images/The Washington Post
A unanimous Supreme Court sided with an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated at work because she is straight.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had previously sided with her
employer, the Ohio Department of Youth Services.
The Supreme Court is seen on April 7 in Washington, D.C.
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At issue in the case was a legal standard used by some federal circuit
courts that impose a higher bar to prove discrimination on people who
are heterosexual, white, and/or male than on minorities.
"Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of
the court's three liberals, wrote in the unanimous opinion.
Brown wrote that the lower court's higher standard was inconsistent with
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars sex discrimination
in the workplace.
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The woman in the case, Marlean Ames, said that the Ohio Department of
Youth Services, where she had worked for 20 years, passed her over for promotion — and then demoted her — because she is straight. In both instances, the jobs were given to LGBTQ+ people.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, one of those federal circuits that
required non-minorities to show a higher standard for discrimination,
ruled against her. The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Ames, and
struck down that higher standard.
Ames now gets another chance to make her case to the lower court with
the lower standard to prove discrimination.
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