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Marlean Ames says that her employer discriminated against her because she is a straight woman, and she took her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Thursday, the court's unanimous ruling found that a lower court's standard against the possibility of "reverse discrimination" was wrong. Ames can now argue her case with the new standard of discrimination at the lower court.
'Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone.'
Ames filed a lawsuit accusing her employer, Department of Youth Services of Ohio, when a gay supervisor passed her over for a promotion and gave the job to a gay woman instead. She also claimed to have been demoted with a pay cut in favor of a gay man. She had worked for the department for over 20 years.
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