Black Nashville Water Worker Can’t Prove Retaliation: 6th Cir.

A black public water services worker in Tennessee lacked evidence his employer retaliated against him by, years after he participated in a race discrimination class action, hiring someone else for a job he wanted, a federal appeals court ruled.

Claude Grant’s claim against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County can’t go forward because he never actually applied for the position overseeing a new section formed when the county merged its stormwater maintenance divisions in 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Dec. 26.

The county filled the position from an eligibility list created and ...