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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Courts - "Appeals Court in Atlanta Again Rejects Racial Discrimination Claim"
Here are a couple quotes from Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column in the NY Times of Sept. 6, 2010:
Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appeals court in Atlanta said there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man “boy.”“The usages were conversational,” the majority explained, repeating what it had told the trial court after the Supreme Court ruled, and “nonracial in context.” Even if “somehow construed as racial,” the unsigned 2-to-1 decision went on, “the comments were ambiguous stray remarks” that were not proof of employment discrimination. * * *
Stephen B. Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, said the Atlanta appeals court was an outlier among the federal appeals courts, one that is consistently hostile to suits from people claiming racial discrimination.
“There is no such thing as racial discrimination in employment in the 11th Circuit,” Mr. Bright said, adding that the court’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hithon case amounted to “outright defiance.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 8, 2010 09:15 AM
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