Ulta Scores Early End to White Worker’s Race Discrimination Suit

Ulta Beauty Inc. nabbed a pretrial end to a White worker’s lawsuit challenging the company’s response to her conflict with a Black customer and alleging retaliation for complaining about the incident.

The former stylist failed to show the beauty retailer constructively discharged her, and even if she had, she didn’t link the end of her employment to her race, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. The worker also failed to show that Ulta retaliated against her after she lodged a bias complaint over the customer incident, the Monday opinion said.

Plaintiff Karen McCreesh worked ...