Court Renews Racial Discrimination Case

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court stepped into a dispute Tuesday over whether white managers can be sued for calling black employees "boys."

The court unanimously overturned an appeals court decision that said the term "boy" alone was not evidence of workplace discrimination.

The decision, one of the first actions with new Justice Samuel Alito, is a loss for Tyson Foods Inc. which was sued by two longtime black employees who claimed they were passed over for promotions by a white manager who called them "boys."

A jury awarded Anthony Ash and John Hithon $1.75 million apiece in damages, but a judge threw out the decision.

Ash had 15 years experience with Tyson Foods and Hithon 13 years. A white man who got a management job they sought at an Alabama plant had less than two years experience.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-scotus-discrimination,0,1744762.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[LiberalVoice]

1. Tyson foods is a racist company!

This sint the first time discrimination against balck people has been an issue with them.

[confludemocrat]

2. This court is going to screw minorities in every way but cases like this

The bush appointees in lower courts are going to serve up plenty of "gopher balls" to make this court look good, while they rule in more fundamentally damaging ways against Civil Rights in many other cases.