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 ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a lawsuit from an Ohio woman who​ claimed she was the victim of reverse discrimination.

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

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 […] ...

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

An Ohio woman will be allowed to pursue a case alleging she was denied a promotion and demoted because she is heterosexual.

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 ...

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 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 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.