It appears as if the U.S. Supreme Court may rule against Abercrombie & Fitch in an employee discrimination case brought by a Muslim woman who was rejected for a job because she wore a black headscarf to her interview.
That's according to Reuters' account of oral arguments at the court Wednesday, which noted conservative Justice Samuel Alito appeared to join the court's four liberal justices in siding with the woman.
The black headscarf violated Abercrombie & Fitch' dress code in 2008, when Samantha Elauf applied for a sales job at an Abercrombie Kids store in Tulsa, Okla. The assistant manager who conducted the interview assumed the applicant was a Muslim and wore the headscarf for religious reasons, but the applicant didn't discuss her beliefs during the interview.
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