On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services in which the Plaintiff alleged

The US Supreme Court has unanimously sided with Marlean Ames, an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work for being straight. The ruling is a push back against legal standards that made reverse discrimination harder to prove.

The nation’s highest court said a straight woman who claimed she was passed over for promotion did not have to prove a higher standard of discrimination as a member of a majority group.