The U.S. Supreme Court over the 2024-2025 term ruled on many so-called "culture wars" issues. Here's a look at those and ...

The number of married same-sex couples in the U.S. has more than doubled since the Obergefell decision, especially in ...

In the decision, the court held that federal civil rights statutes give members of majority groups the same right to sue as ...

Previously, some federal circuit courts had created an extra standard where majority groups, such as white litigants, had to ...

Marlean Ames, a straight woman from the Akron area, started working for the Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS) in 2004. She worked her way up from an executive secretary to a program ...

The problem for Ames is that federal courts in Ohio require a higher burden of proof from members of majority groups -- like straight, white people -- who charge discrimination that they do from ...

With DEI already under threat, employers are bracing for a wave of reverse discrimination claims from "majority" groups such as White people and men.

Supreme Court sides with straight woman in 'reverse discrimination' case The woman claimed she was passed up for a promotion and demoted because she is straight, and both roles were given to LGBTQ ...

Marlean Ames at the law office of Edward Gilbert, her lawyer, in Akron, Ohio, US, on February 13, 2025. REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo (REUTERS) ...

The justices, in a 9-0 ruling written by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, threw out a lower court’s decision rejecting a civil rights lawsuit by the plaintiff, Marlean Ames, against her ...