Volume 87 — Federal Reporter, Fourth Series

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. 303 (2025), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court case about whether a claim of discrimination against a member of a majority group, commonly called reverse discrimination, requires an additional showing of "background circumstances" supporting a suspicion that the employer is "that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority". The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, unanimously held that this more difficult standard for showing discrimination against a member of a majority group was at odds with Title VII and could not be used.