<ul><li>SCOTUS unanimously overturned the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in the Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services case.</li><li>The case involved a heterosexual woman who claimed she was passed over for a promotion, demoted, and subsequently replaced by a gay man, alleging discrimination based on her sexual orientation.</li><li>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the appeals court's 'background circumstances' requirement went against Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and SCOTUS precedent.</li><li>SCOTUS vacated and remanded the case, stating that the standard for proving disparate treatment under Title VII does not depend on whether the plaintiff belongs to a majority group.</li></ul>

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