The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to lean toward reviving a straight woman’s “reverse discrimination” case brought over claims she was passed over for a promotion and demoted in favor of gay colleagues.

Such a ruling would lower the legal hurdle in many areas of the country for white and straight employees to bring discrimination suits against their employers.

Lower courts ruled against Marlean Ames, who has worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services for two decades, by finding she must provide more evidence than minority groups to prove her claims, because she is part of a majority group.

At oral arguments Wednesday, a majority of the Supreme Court appeared sympathetic toward Ames’s argument that the additional “background circumstances” requirement goes beyond what Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires.

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