SCOTUS Seeks Stance of US on Review of Job Bias Adverse Act Test

The US Supreme Court on Monday invited the US government to weigh in on whether the court should review a pair of cases challenging the adverse employment action test widely used in job discrimination cases.

In one suit, St. Louis police sergeant Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow told the justices that the Eighth Circuit used the wrong legal standard when it ruled April 4 that she couldn’t hold the city liable for sex bias under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act for her forced transfer out of the intelligence unit, and the denial of her subsequent transfer request, because her ...