Latest Employment Discrimination Cases

The following are summaries of the latest court rulings involving employment discrimination prepared by Bloomberg BNA legal editors.

FEDERAL APPEALS COURTS

Promotion

6th Cir. (2/3/16) — Summary judgment was properly granted to employer in action by black account manager and his domestic partner co-worker who alleged that they were denied promotion to senior account manager because of black account manager’s race and co-worker’s association with him. Court affirms findings that black account manager lacked required bachelor’s degree, that there was no evidence that two nonminority employees who received promotion didn’t meet educational requirements, that one proposed comparator didn’t in fact ...