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Employment Discrimination

$2.75 MILLION SETTLEMENT FOR VICTIMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

A national manufacturing company agreed to pay six employees $2.75 million  to settle a laws where the workers alleged that they had been unlawfully discriminated against because they were African-American.

The deal resolved what was striping up to be a long court battle in which the Plaintiffs were prepared to argue to a jury that the company's management  had engaged in the disproportionate discipline of its African American workers; had wrongfully terminated and denied promotions to its African American workers; and created hostile work environment involving numerous racial slurs and epithets.

The HCB&T litigation team was comprised of Norm Hobbie, serving as lead trial counsel and Michael Hobbie, serving as associate trial counsel.