The Supreme Court on Thursday sent the case of an Ohio woman who contends that she was the victim of reverse discrimination back to the lower courts. In a unanimous ruling […]

The justices in a unanimous ruling threw out a lower court's decision rejecting a civil-rights lawsuit by a plaintiff who said she was passed over for a promotion by her gay supervisor in favor of a gay woman and demoted in favor of a gay man.

The justices rejected an appeals court’s requirement that members of majority groups meet a heightened standard to win employment discrimination cases.