FAIRLAWN, Ohio (WOIO) - A unanimous Supreme Court has made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then was demoted because she is straight.

“It’s one of those cases where it doesn’t matter who you are; you should be treated equally, and that’s what this case is all about,” said the woman’s attorney, Edward L. Gilbert.

At the center of the case is Marlean Ames, who is from the Akron area and has worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services for over two decades.

Gilbert says back in 2019, Ames claims her gay supervisor passed her up for a promotion, instead promoting a gay co-worker, who he adds did not even apply for the job.

Around that time, Ames was demoted (to a position making $40,000 less

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