"But that's not consistent with the statute that tells us that we're supposed to protect all individuals from individual discrimination based on the individual case," Wang added.
Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked Wang to address the concern expressed by Ohio that ruling in favor of Ames would "throw the door wide open to Title VII suits, because now everybody can say, 'Hey, this was discrimination on the basis of race, gender, et cetera.'"
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and other civil rights groups told the Supreme Court in a legal filing that Ames is asking the justices "to interpret Title VII in a way that ignores the realities of this country's persisting legacy of discrimination in evaluating disparate-treatment claims."