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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, a case where a heterosexual employee claimed her employer discriminated against her in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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he key legal question isn’t whether she has a claim but whether plaintiffs in the so-called “majority” must clear an additional hurdle—proving “background circumstances” that show their employer is an unusual one that discriminate
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against the majority. I don’t have a crystal ball, but maybe artificial intelligence does. I uploaded the oral argument transcript and asked three separate AI assistants (Harvey.AI,