The Supreme Court held oral argument today in a case known as Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. The case involved an allegation of so-called reverse discrimination against Marlean Ames who claimed she was discriminated against and lost jobs because she is straight.
Ames went to work in 2004 as an executive secretary at the Ohio Department of Youth Services. Ten years later, she was appointed as a program administrator. In a performance evaluation in 2018, Ames’s new supervisor, Ginine Trim – who is gay – indicated that Ames met expectations in 10 categories and exceeded them in an 11th.
But in 2019, she applied for a new position that she did not get. Soon after she was demoted to a previous job, where she earned just over half the hourly rate she had been making.
Ames then went to federal court in Ohio, contending that she had been the victim…
