Supreme Court rejects higher bar for straight workers to prove discrimination

• A lower court ruled that when a member of a majority group — in this case, someone who's heterosexual — wants to bring a discrimination suit, they have to provide extra evidence to prove that they work for "that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority."

No they don't, the Supreme Court said. Federal nondiscrimination law protects every individual under the same standards.

• "By establishing the same protections for every 'individual'—without regard to that individual's membership in a minority or majority group—Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the court's decision.