FedEx Fends Off Black LGBTQ+ Worker’s Discriminatory Firing Case

A FedEx Corp. subsidiary is free of a lawsuit alleging it discriminated against a Black LGBTQ+ employee when it fired her following a dispute with a coworker, a federal judge in Tennessee said.

Nothing in the record supports Trinika McFarland’s sexual orientation discrimination claim, Judge Brian Lea of the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee found. She also didn’t identify a coworker at the delivery company who was part of a different group and received better treatment, he said in granting summary judgment to the Memphis-based Federal Express Corp.

The ruling provides of an example ...