SCOTUS Sides With Straight Woman in Bombshell ‘Reverse Discrimination’ Case– townhall.com
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Excerpt:On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down a decision surrounding a straight woman’s “reverse discrimination” case against her former employer.
The High Court ruled unanimously that the plaintiff, Marlean Ames, faced a higher hurdle to sue her former employer than if she’d been gay. The ruling states that members of a majority group do not need to show “background circumstances” in addition to normal requirements to prove a claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects Americans from employment discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, etc.
SCOTUS rejected a lower court’s ruling that Ames could not sue the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she’d failed to provide “background circumstances” showing the department was discriminating “against the majority.”
Ames, who worked for Youth Services for 20 years, sued because she’d been passed over for promotions and demoted in favor of gay colleagues (via The Hill):
Ohio’s Department of Youth Services hired Ames in 2004 and a decade later promoted her to become administrator of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).
In 2019, she interviewed for another job at the department but was not hired. Her gay supervisor suggested she retire, and days later, Ames was demoted with a significant pay cut. A 25-year-old gay man was then promoted to become PREA administrator. And months later, the department chose a gay woman for the role Ames unsuccessfully applied for.
A three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel agreed Ames would’ve prevailed if she was a gay woman. But they ruled against her since she didn’t meet the additional requirement as part of a minority group.
