Black Penn Pharmacist Punished for Sleeping Fails to Revive Case

A Black pharmacist failed to show the University of Pennsylvania held him to a higher standard because of his race when it disciplined him for falling asleep during an overnight hospital shift.

The clinical pharmacist didn’t identify any non-Black colleagues Penn treated better in similar situations, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said. Even if the worker put forth an initial claim for race discrimination, he can’t show that Penn used his reported at-work naps as pretext for biased discipline, the Monday unpublished opinion said, affirming a lower court ruling in the university’s favor.

• Maurice Nelson Clark, ...