U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 16, 2025
Supreme Court rejects heightened standard in reverse discrimination cases
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Ames v. Ohio that Title VII protects all workers equally, striking down the extra "background circumstances" burden for majority-group discrimination claims and unifying the standard for all plaintiffs.
In a consensus decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held
that there in only one anti-discrimination standard, and protections under
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act must apply equally to all workers.
The court's unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services was authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. In her June 5 opinion, Jackson rejected the approach by five federal circuit courts of appeal that had been app...
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