NAV Consulting Beats One Race Bias Claim by Asian-Indian Worker

A former NAV Consulting Inc. senior account manager who says he was discriminated against because of his Indian ethnicity and national origin, Asian race, and citizenship status pleaded himself out of court on one of his race bias claims, a Chicago federal court ruled Thursday.

Amit Arora sued the hedge fund administrator and CEO Nav Gupta under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Illinois Human Rights Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the court said. Title VII and the IHRA shield employees from discrimination based on race and other protected characteristics, while Section 1981 only provides a ...