Ex-BNSF Worker Waited Too Long to Bring Race Discrimination Case

A former BNSF Railway Co. locomotive engineer who lost his job after a collision waited too long to file a suit alleging the company held him to higher standards because he’s Black.

The worker, who didn’t file a required agency charge until nearly two years after his firing, argued that the 300-day limitations period should be tolled because he diligently pursued an out-of-court resolution first. But he failed to convince the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas that public policy considerations support applying equitable tolling, the Wednesday opinion said.

Broderick Williams was holding his cellphone when his ...