Black Female HUD Attorney Denied Job Bias, Retaliation Trial

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development defeated race and sex discrimination claims by a senior attorney in its inspector general’s office, a D.C. federal judge ruled.

The former employee failed to rebut the agency’s explanation for why her boss in the Office of General Counsel of its Office of Inspector General denied her credit hours for working beyond her scheduled time, the US District Court the the District of Columbia said. She didn’t dispute that office policy barred her from receiving credit hours because she worked a four-day-a-week rather than a five-day schedule, the court said.

The case ...