Prostitutes’ Job Bias Suit Resumes After Brothel Denied Appeal

Two Black prostitutes who say they were harassed, retaliated against, and otherwise denied equal job rights while working for Nevada’s Chicken Ranch brothel can resume their proposed class lawsuit against the brothel’s owner, a federal judge ruled.

The case under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had been stayed while Western Best LLC, which does business as the Chicken Ranch, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit whether the company is an “employer” under the U.S.'s primary federal employment discrimination law.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada July 22 had granted Western ...