Supreme Court Hears Case of Female Police Officer Who Claims Sex Discrimination

Published on December 6, 2023

The Supreme Court heard on Dec. 6 the case of a Missouri police sergeant who argues a city illegal discriminated against her by giving her a lateral job transfer she did not want but that had the same pay and benefits. Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow of the St. Louis police department claims she was forced out of the intelligence unit, transferred to a different, less prestigious job she didn’t like, and denied a requested transfer because she is a woman. Put another way, she claims that after serving in a high-level capacity, she was placed in a dead-end job because of her sex....

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