On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 145 S. Ct. 1540 (2025), making clear ...

Ames twice lost jobs at the Ohio Department of Youth Services to other candidates she thought were less qualified, both of whom were gay. The department said she was passed over for a promotion ...

Ohio's alternative argument that Ames's Title VII claims would fail even absent the "background circumstances" rule is for the courts below to consider in the first instance on remand. Pp. 7--9.

Marlean Ames sued her employer, the Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleging that she was denied a management promotion and subsequently demoted because she is heterosexual.

Ames’ case can now go forward in federal district court in Ohio. Ames has worked at the department, which oversees juvenile corrections, since 2004. She was promoted to administrator of the department ...

Marlean Ames in her lawyer's office in Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 20. Ames claims she was passed over for jobs because she is a straight woman and that gay people were given positions she was more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then ...

Marlean Ames claims she was denied a promotion and then demoted because she is straight. Both the job she sought and the one she held were given to LGBTQ workers.

The case is Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 23-1039. (Updates with except from Jackson opinion in third paragraph.) Most Read from Bloomberg Next Stop: Rancho Cucamonga!