Ford Vanquishes Muslim Engineer’s Race, Religious Bias Claims

Ford Motor Co. defeated claims that it discriminated and retaliated against a Muslim engineer of Middle Eastern origin, as a federal judge ruled the worker failed to plausibly allege wrongdoing.

The ex-engineer didn’t plausibly allege that the automaker fired him because of his race, national origin, or religion or that his termination was the culmination of a campaign of retaliatory acts following his internal bias report, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said Tuesday, dismissing the suit with prejudice.

Plaintiff Ashraf Mustafa worked for Ford as a manufacturing engineer for approximately seven years. He says he ...