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Marlean Ames won a unanimous US Supreme Court ruling in 2025. Now she alleges her state employer is retaliating against her for it.
Ames has sued the State of Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleging the agency retaliated against her after she pursued a discrimination claim that reached the nation's highest court. She filed the complaint July 15, 2026, in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Ames worked for the agency for about 38 years, according to the filing, rising from secretary to CCF PREA Administrator - a role centered on compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the federal law aimed at preventing sexual abuse in confinement settings. The complaint says her earlier discrimination case was dismissed, upheld on appeal, and then unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court in June 2025 and sent back for further proceedings. In an earlier charge attached to the filing, Ames describes that ruling as lifting a heightened burden that had applied to majority-group plaintiffs.
The retaliation began almost immediately, the complaint alleges. Ames says that within days of the reversal she was ordered to report to a facility in Massillon, handed a single limited-access key, and confined to one room. She alleges she was denied the "key 55" that, according to the filing, other employees carried, and was shut out of most of the building. The complaint...
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