majority-group

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1039 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show 'background circumstances to support the suspic…
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether Title VII permits courts to impose a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination by requirin…