Ninth Cir. Skeptical of Ex-Seattle Worker DEI Training Suit (1)

The Justice Department’s civil rights division and a White ex-Seattle worker encountered a skeptical federal appeals court that’s considering their bid to have a jury decide if the city’s race and gender-equity trainings for employees created a racially hostile work environment.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday repeatedly challenged the DOJ’s argument—as an amicus curiae in support of Joshua Diemert—that a Seattle federal judge incorrectly dismissed the case last year and applied a now-defunct, stricter standard for White and other nonminority workers to prove bias.

The DOJ echoed Diemert’s claim that ...