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In Brown v.Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled segregation by race in public schools to be unconstitutional. In the following fifteen years, the court issued landmark rulings in cases involving race and civil liberties, but left supervision of the desegregation of Southern schools mostly to lower courts. [1]
A group of nonwhite cannery workers including Frank Atonio filed suit in District Court citing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 complaining that the Wards Cove Packing Company, a company that operated several Alaskan salmon canneries, was using discriminatory hiring practices that resulted in a large number of the skilled permanent jobs that mostly did not involve working in a cannery ...
The post Former Tesla worker settles discrimination case, ending appeals over lowered $3.2 million verdict appeared first on TheGrio. ... number than the $137 million Diaz won in his first trial ...
Allen filed a lawsuit (filed under both Allen's National Association of African-American-Owned Media and Entertainment Studios) in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Comcast in February 2015, seeking US$20 billion in damages and citing that Comcast had used racial discrimination to deny him a ...
In April 2021, a federal jury awarded Jyan Harris $2.4 million in a verdict. But the Unified Government is trying to negotiate that amount to about $1.5 million.
Critics of racial preferences in affirmative action such as William Bennett and Carl Cohen have argued that explicitly using race for the purpose of ending racial discrimination is illogical and contrary to the principle of non-discrimination.
Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009), is a United States labor law case of the United States Supreme Court on unlawful discrimination through disparate impact under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Race-based discrimination is estimated to have set America back over $50 trillion since 1990 alone. Bad-faith reverse-discrimination claims hurt America’s economic future and global standing ...