Supreme Court Opens the Door Wider for Reverse-Discrimination Claims
June 5, 2025
Today, in a 9-0 opinion, the Court abandoned the Sixth Circuit’s “background-circumstances” rule, which had forced majority-group plaintiffs to clear a higher evidentiary bar at step one of the McDonnell Douglas framework. in Ames v. Ohio Dept of Youth Services decided today. Going forward, straight, white, male—or any “majority”—employees face the same prima-facie burden as everyone else under…