Supreme Court Eliminates Heightened Burden for Majority-Group Plaintiffs in Title VII Cases
Key Takeaways from Ames v. Ohio Dep’t of Youth Servs., 605 U.S. 303, 145 S. Ct. 1540 (2025)
This memo analyzes the Supreme Court’s June 2025 decision in Ames v. Ohio Dep’t of Youth Servs., 605 U.S. 303, 145 S. Ct. 1540 (2025), which resolved a significant circuit split regarding evidentiary standards for “reverse discrimination” Title VII disparate-treatment claims. The Court unanimously rejected the routinely enforced “background circumstance…