High Court Weighs Workplace Bias Claim of White, Straight Woman

The US Supreme Court is expected to build on its recent landmark workplace discrimination precedent as it weighs claims by an Ohio woman that she was passed over for promotions and demoted because she is White and straight.

The high court on Wednesday hears arguments in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, a case brought by Marlean Ames, who sued the state’s youth corrections system after it failed to promote her in 2019.

The case, at its base, concerns whether members of a majority group such as White employees must face a higher evidentiary burden when proving a workplace ...