Brooklyn Firm Faces Job Bias Trial Over Lawyer’s Civil War Talk

The Black Hispanic office manager of a New York City law firm will get a trial on claims that a former named partner made her work environment racially hostile by talking about the Civil War, playing music associated with the confederate South, and viewing certain materials online.

The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York compared what it called “obscene, violent, and racist” videos the former Wenig Saltiel LLP employee cited to the workplace displays of a noose that courts have previously found severe enough to violate job harassment law.

Ira Greene’s subjecting Shonda Fernandez “to watching ...