Supreme Court Rules 9-0 for Police Officer in Sex Discrimination Case

Published on April 17, 2024

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on April 17 in favor of a Missouri police sergeant who argued that her employer illegally discriminated by giving her a lateral job transfer she didn’t want. The decision, which found that lower courts had applied the wrong legal standard in the case, is expected to make it easier for employees to sue under federal civil rights law when they are transferred against their will, even if they have not been demoted or suffered a pay reduction. The 9-0 opinion in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis was written by Justice Elena Kagan. The court examined what protection Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides an employee who claims that she was the victim of a discriminatory transfer....

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