PBGC Beats Assistant General Counsel’s Bias Suit Over Deputy Job

An Asian American female Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. lawyer lacks evidence of discrimination in the agency’s decision to pick a White man over her for a deputy general counsel position, a DC federal court ruled.

The PBGC supported its explanation that the White male attorney was the unanimous choice of a three-member panel after the final round of interviews, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said. Plaintiff Andrea Wong, a longtime PBGC assistant general counsel, failed to raise jury questions on whether the agency’s justification was pretextual and whether intentional race, national origin, and sex bias against ...