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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Straight woman’s ‘reverse discrimination’ case could upend decades of equality safeguards

A woman’s claim that her workplace discriminated against her because she is straight could be the case that opens the door making it easier for people in “majority” groups, such as white people, heterosexual people and men, to file discriminatory lawsuits.

Supreme Court justices appeared to agree with some of Marlean Ames’s argument in her pursuit to file a discrimination lawsuit against her employer, the Ohio Department of Youth Services, during oral arguments on Wednesday.

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