The US Supreme Court is expected to build on its recent landmark workplace discrimination precedent as it weighs claims by an Ohio woman that she was passed over for promotions and demoted because she is White and straight.
The high court on Wednesday hears arguments in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, a case brought by Marlean Ames, who sued the state’s youth corrections system after it failed to promote her in 2019.
The case, at its base, concerns whether members of a majority group such as White employees must face a higher evidentiary burden when proving a workplace discrimination claim. A ruling, expected by June, follows a circuit divide on the issue.
Legal observers predict the conservative majority will concur and rule that federal anti-discrimination protections must be applied equally to all workers regardless of race, gender, and other protected characteristics.
That would align with the majority’s 2023 ruling outlawing race-conscious college admissions practices, which it said undermine the US Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.
Such an order would also follow recent landmark high court decisions making it easier for LGBTQ+ and religious workers to get workplace bias claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act before a jury. It also would lower the threshold for what constitutes an illegal adverse employment...
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