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If you suspect you’ve been subjected to illegal workplace discrimination and/or retaliation in Maryland, understanding your employee rights is essential. Taking the right steps early on can help you protect your position, secure your income, and preserve your peace of mind, or maybe even correct the problem, which is possible, even if difficult.  Consulting a lawyer is a great first step.  Check out Mosson Law, LLC, and www.mossonlaw.com.

In Johnson v. Baltimore City et. al., the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals revived a dismissed lawsuit and affirmed a lenient pleading standard in Maryland federal courts for pleading a racial discrimination case based upon the theory of disparate treatment.  Slip Op. 25-1124 (4th Cir. Jan. 6, 2026). The Fourth Circuit examined comparisons taken "together," and found them sufficient to state a disparate treatment claim, sufficient to proceed initially.

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed a single standard for racial discrimination employment claims, under Title VII of The 1964 Civil Rights Act, in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, Slip Op. 23-1039, 605 U.S. ___ (June 5, 2025).  This includes racial discrimination alleged by the "majority culture," or sometimes framed as "reverse race discrimination claims," because employers are alleged to fire caucasians due to their causasian and/or white race.

 

In Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court clarifies that employment discrimination claims can proceed at court where "harm" is alleged to have occurred based on a protected status, with "harm" being tangible, but not always significant or economic.  Slip Op No. 22-193 (2024).