'At a time when principles of diversity, equity and inclusion are under siege, the Supreme Court will hear and decide Ames. Just as Students for Fair Admission changed the DEI landscape in education, Ames is likely to usher in further change for employers.
“At a time when principles of diversity, equity and inclusion are under siege, the Supreme Court will hear and decide Ames. Just as Students for Fair Admission changed the DEI landscape in education, Ames is likely to usher in further change for employers.”, or friend-of-the-court, brief with the United States Supreme Court in a case called
In Ames, the weird thing was that the Plaintiff, Marlean Ames won her discrimination case in court, but lost the case anyway. How, you ask? Well, it turns out that she was the victim of reverse discrimination, this time in the form of discrimination against “straight,” i.e. not homosexual, persons. In this case, Ames was not promoted to one position, and then fired and demoted from her own position, both in favor of gay persons who were not even qualified for the jobs at issue.
A wave of anti-DEI lawsuits, executive orders, and social media movements has swept the country. On Feb. 26, 2025, the United States Supreme Court will hearin a vacuum; employers already are under pressure from a series of recent anti-DEI reforms coming from the executive branch, private litigants, advocacy groups, social media influencers, consumers, and shareholders…
The second EO extends beyond federal actors and targets private entities in several notable ways. First, the “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Order eliminates Executive Order 11246, which has been in place since 1965 and prohibited discrimination by federal contractors and required affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity.
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