2024 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded
Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services
605 U.S. 303
The record
- Term
- 2024
- Decided
- Issue area
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- Vote split
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- Winning party
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- Decision direction
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- Chief Justice
- Roberts Court
- Disposition
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- Docket
- 23-1039
- U.S. Reports
- 605 U.S. 303
- S. Ct. citation
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- LEXIS citation
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- Opinion by
- Ketanji Brown Jackson
Holding
The Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule—which requires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard to prevail on a Title VII discrimination claim—cannot be squared with either the text of Title VII or the Court’s precedents.
How the bench divided
No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.
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