The Supreme Court unanimously determined Thursday that an Ohio woman can move forward with her complaint alleging that a state agency passed her over for promotion because she is heterosexual. In a ...

WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with a Summit County woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then was ...

Marlean Ames in her lawyer's office in Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 20. Ames claims she was passed over for jobs because she is a straight woman and that gay people were given positions she was more qualified ...

In a decision[1] issued June 5, 2025, the United States Supreme Court unanimously found that the burden of proof on a plaintiff asserting an employment discrimination claim is the same, regardless of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark, unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. ___ (2025) on June 5, 2025, fundamentally altering the landscape for “reverse ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a woman's claim that she was discriminated against at work because she is straight. The unanimous ruling could make it easier in some parts of the country for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously revived a 2020 lawsuit by Marlean Ames, who claims she was discriminated against for being heterosexual by the Ohio Department of Youth Services. The 61-year-old had ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of an Akron-area woman in her reverse-discrimination lawsuit against a state agency. Marlean Ames, an Ohio Department of ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed on June 5 that a worker faced a higher hurdle to sue her employer as a straight woman than if she'd been gay. The unanimous decision, which landed amid a national ...