Marlean Ames alleged that the Ohio Department of Youth Services passed her over for promotion because she is heterosexual. REUTERS. Her complaint will be sent back to the lower courts for further ...

Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of an Ohio woman who claimed workplace discrimination, finding that majority groups in protected classes don't need to meet higher evidentiary standards in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sent the case of an Ohio woman who contends that she was the victim of reverse discrimination back to the lower courts. In a unanimous ruling […] ...

The justices rejected a lower court’s ruling that Marlean Ames could not sue the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she’d failed to provide “background circumstances” showing the ...

The decision allows Ames to return to the lower court and present her case again, without the said discrimination. Marlean Ames worked at the Ohio Department of Youth Services for 20 years.

Why is the Ames decision potentially so significant It may very well signal the death knell of reverse discrimination as a ...

Marlean Ames claims she was denied a promotion and then demoted because she is straight. Both the job she sought and the one she held were given to LGBTQ workers.

The justices rejected a lower court’s ruling that Marlean Ames could not sue the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she’d failed to provide “background circumstances” showing the ...

Marlean Ames at the law office of Edward Gilbert, her lawyer, in Akron, Ohio, February 13, 2025. REUTERS. DEI-infused bureaucracies often consider such policies an acceptable part of their ...

The case goes as follows: Marlean Ames was hired in 2004 by the Ohio Department of Youth Services as an executive secretary and was later promoted to a program administrator.

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 ...

Ohio Department of Youth Services, the high court tossed out a ruling by a federal appeals court that dismissed Marlean Ames' claims because she failed to clear a higher bar applied to members of ...