The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a straight woman in Ohio who filed a “reverse discrimination” lawsuit against her ...

Marlean Ames filed a reverse discrimination lawsuit in 2020 after she lost out on two jobs to colleagues who were gay at the Ohio Youth Department.

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 court unanimously sided with an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work because she is straight.

The Supreme Court unanimously determined that Marlean Ames can move forward with her complaint that she was passed her over for promotion because she is heterosexual.

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 ...

Under that rule, Marlean Ames, a straight woman from Ohio, was denied the ability to sue her employer for what she alleges was discrimination against her sexual orientation.

Marlean Ames argued she faced too high a legal burden in pressing her claim after being passed over and demoted in favor of a lesbian and a gay man. June 5, 2025, 10:14 AM EDT / Updated June 5 ...

The plaintiff in this case is Marlean Ames, a straight white woman who worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services. Ames applied for a promotion, but didn’t get it.

Supreme Court sides with straight woman in ... The justices rejected a lower court’s ruling that Marlean Ames could not sue the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she’d ...

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 ... not because she happened to be straight.

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 ...