Veteran’s Job Bias Case Brings State Immunity Before High Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has a chance to decide whether state employers can be sued for job bias under a federal law that prohibits workplace discrimination based on military service.

Pending before the high court is a petition from an Army veteran and former state trooper who alleged that the Texas Department of Public Safety violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act when it denied him a job that accommodated the lung damage he suffered while deployed in Iraq.

Leroy Torres requested that the court consider whether states are immune to private lawsuits brought under that law, after ...