Cook County Defeats Juvenile Probation Officer’s Race Bias Suit

A Cook County, Ill., court isn’t liable to a former juvenile probation officer for race discrimination or retaliation, because the denial of his request to change his schedule wasn’t the type of injury federal antidiscrimination law was intended to address, a federal court in the state said Friday.

Jason Smith is Black, and as a union representative he frequently helped his fellow employees press racial discrimination complaints. Smith requested to change his schedule to work four ten-hour days a week. This would give him an extra day off to study for the LSAT in anticipation of going to law school, ...