Car Dealer Partly Axes White Worker’s Wife-Linked Race Bias Case

A Texas auto dealership defeated a White worker’s claim that he faced racial bias because of his biracial Black wife’s social media posts, but a federal judge allowed the man’s retaliation allegations to move forward.

The worker says Sewell Corp. used a colleague’s discovery of his wife’s semi-anonymous and pornographic online presence as pretext for racial discrimination and retaliation. He didn’t put forth a prima facie associational discrimination case, but there’s enough evidence in dispute to get his retaliation claim to trial, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Wednesday.

Plaintiff Russ Kirby worked for Dallas-based ...