The court during arguments on Feb. 26 appeared to lean toward making it easier for people from "majority backgrounds," such as white or straight people, to pursue workplace discrimination claims, as they heard an appeal by an Ohio woman who claims she was denied a promotion and demoted because she is heterosexual.
The court also has taken up appeals in cases involving a bid by religious parents to keep their children out of classes in a Maryland public school district when LGBT storybooks are read and a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state's unemployment insurance tax.