Johns Hopkins Physics Lab Beats Worker’s Bias, Retaliation Case

The applied physics laboratory at Johns Hopkins University defeated a Black worker’s bias and retaliation case for now, but the former employee secured permission to try again on his race discrimination claims.

The worker didn’t sufficiently allege any direct evidence of bias, and his allegations don’t support a reasonable inference that discrimination motivated decisionmakers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC, the US District Court for the District of Maryland said Tuesday.

Plaintiff Jaracus Copes worked for APL, a university affiliated research center, as an instructional designer starting in 2017. His duties included writing curriculum, training instructors, selecting students, ...