Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Woman Who Says She Lost Job For Not Being Gay

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a woman on Thursday who claimed her employer discriminated against her because she is straight.

The court held that members of majority groups should not have to face a “heightened evidentiary standard” to prove a discrimination claim.

“By establishing the same protections for every ‘individual’ —without regard to that individual’s membership in a minority or majority group—Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the court’s opinion. (Read more from “Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Woman Who Says She Lost Job For Not Being Gay” HERE)