SCOTUS Hears “Straight Discrimination” Case Today

NBC News reports:

The Supreme Court on Wednesday considers the novel legal question of whether a woman can pursue a workplace sex discrimination case over claims she was discriminated against because she is straight. The court’s ultimate ruling could lower the bar for people belonging to majority groups to bring so-called reverse discrimination claims.

Marlean Ames brought a claim against the Ohio Department of Youth Services under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace, after a lesbian woman obtained a promotion she was also seeking. She was then demoted, and her old position was taken by a gay man.

America First Legal [Voldemort], a conservative group with close ties to the Trump administration, filed a brief in Ames’ case citing cases it has brought against various companies, including Starbucks and IBM, alleging race and sex discrimination.

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Supreme Court weighs straight woman’s reverse discrimination claim
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