Seattle Lawyers May Want to Have Coffee Ready in Job Bias Cases

It’s said that timing is everything, but Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft, and other western Washington employers don’t do a whole lot better getting workers’ bias claims thrown out of court on the eve of trial than they do soon after a lawsuit is filed.

That’s a break from the pattern Bloomberg Law has found with federal district courts in New York, Alabama, and Illinois. Judges in those courts toss employment cases just prior to trial at rates that are respectively 7.8, 15.5, and 20.7 percentage points higher than the rates at which they dismiss job lawsuits in the ...