April 5, 2019
Four African Americans can move ahead with a lawsuit seeking damages from a Louisiana district attorney’s office over the racial composition of juries, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Dee Drell in Alexandria ruled April 1 in a …
September 11, 2018
A St. Joseph, Missouri, woman has been awarded $8.5 million in a racial discrimination lawsuit she brought against Missouri gas utility Spire. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis jury awarded $1.3 million in actual damages and $7.2 …
May 18, 2018
A Milwaukee-area company will go to trial in a racial discrimination case after a federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the firm refused to hire a woman because she was black. U.S District Court Judge David E. Jones …
November 14, 2017
U.S. automaker Tesla Inc. was hit with a class-action lawsuit claiming its California production plant is a “hotbed for racist behavior.” The lawsuit filed in California state court in Oakland on Monday is at least the third filed this year …
April 18, 2017
The city of Vancouver and others successfully conspired to close a nightclub because of racial prejudice, the owners of the club say in a $22.5 million lawsuit. The owners of Q Nightclub and Lounge say efforts by the city and …
November 4, 2015
A St. Louis County jury has awarded nearly $5 million to a former Harris-Stowe State University instructor who argued the historically black school discriminated against her because she is white. Jurors returned the $4.85 million verdict favoring Beverly Wilkins on …