A jury must decide whether a Black Trader Joe’s Co. manager was fired for having a conversation about guns on the sales floor, or in retaliation for filing a race discrimination lawsuit that received local media attention.
Trader Joe’s said it decided to fire James Jarmon before the Philadelphia Magazine article on his lawsuit came out. But the fact that his termination letter was dated the same day as the article’s publication and just 11 days after he filed the lawsuit creates genuine issues of fact for a jury, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled ...
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