It just got easier for White workers to sue. Here's why.

For decades, men, straight people and White people were often held to a higher legal standard when bringing workplace bias claims than groups that historically faced discrimination.

No longer. The Supreme Court this week made it easier for members of so-called “majority groups” to sue for discrimination by siding with an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claimed she twice lost jobs to lesser-qualified gay candidates because she is straight.

Federal civil rights law does not distinguish between members of majority and minority groups, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the unanimous decision striking down the standard used in nearly half of federal circuit courts.

Legal experts say the closely watched ruling could spur more reverse discrimination complaints at a moment when workplace