( March 11, 2025, 10:29 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 10 dissent from the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of a petition for a writ of certiorari in a Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 disparate treatment case, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, stated that the case brought by a California fire chief who alleged that he was terminated based on his religion presented an opportunity the high court should have seized “to revisit McDonnell Douglas and decide whether its burden-shifting framework remains a workable and useful evidentiary tool.”...