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McCormick & Schmick’s settles race discrimination suit for $1.3M
The owners of McCormick & Schmick’s and M&S Grill have agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a long-running race discrimination suit, filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2008.
Construction company alleges reverse discrimination by city school board
A Timonium construction company has cited reverse race and sex discrimination in seeking to prevent Baltimore City’s Board of School Commissioners from moving forward on a project to replace Waverly Elementary School. CAM Construction Co. Inc. filed a temporary restraining order application and a motion for preliminary injunction on Wednesday in Baltimore’s U.S. District Court, […]
Top 5: ‘A day late and two dollars short’
It was all the Exxon gas leak case this week from The Daily Record’s legal affairs side — at least when it comes to the top stories on our site. Some of those stories and more made it into this week’s staff-written top 5. 1. Jurors will award punitive damages in Exxon leak case – […]
4th Circuit upholds dismissal of race discrimination case
A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an $800,000 race discrimination case against the Maryland Judiciary, saying the fired worker’s “conclusory” complaint failed to allege facts that would indicate an unlawful act occurred. Daniel Coleman’s bias complaint failed to rise “above the speculative level,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stated. Coleman […]
