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

A Supreme Court ruling making it easier for "majority" groups such as white people and men to sue for on-the-job bias is expected to unleash a new wave of reverse discrimination claims.

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 do