Supreme Court: Elena Kagan's tactical victory for civil rights plaintiffs.
Workers punished with discriminatory transfers waited decades for this decision.
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Workers punished with discriminatory transfers waited decades for this decision.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that could open up the definition of what qualifies as workplace discrimination in ways that could threaten corporate DEI policies.
The question on what qualifies as workplace discrimination turned into a back-and-forth deliberation among the Supreme Court justices and the attorneys in the arguments for Muldrow v. City of St. Louis.
The officer, Jatonya Muldrow, said she had been transferred to a less desirable position based on her sex. Lower courts said that she had not shown concrete harm.
These days, you take what you can get from the Supreme Court.