Abercrombie Prepares for Supreme Court Battle Over Muslim Headscarf Policy

It's been a rough few months for retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, with the retirement of its colorful and sometimes controversial CEO Mike Jeffries in December and its struggling sales.

The Ohio-based clothing chain will face another challenge on Wednesday when it will appear before the Supreme Court of the United States to defend its decision in 2008 to not hire Samantha Elauf, a Muslim woman, to work at a Tulsa, Oklahoma Abercrombie Kids store as a sales associate—or a "model," as Abercrombie calls the position internally. The reason they didn't hire her? The hijab she wore...