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 ...

Interviewing for a job or competing for a promotion just got fairer. In a unanimous ruling on June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court levelled the legal playing field, saying everyone deserves the same ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a woman on Thursday who claimed her employer discriminated against her because she is ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the nation’s anti-discrimination laws apply equally to all employees, ...

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.

Marlean Ames first sued her employer, the Ohio Department of Youth Services, in 2020, alleging she was passed over for a promotion in favor of one gay coworker, then demoted in favor of another.