General Motors Worker’s Race, Sex Bias Claims Revived on Appeal

A Black General Motors LLC worker who says the company engaged in race- and sex-based discrimination against her presented enough evidence for her claims to reach a jury, the Second Circuit said Thursday.

The worker put forth proof that she faced sexist comments and that a manager at the New York plant where she worked called her “dumb,” in front of other GM employees, augmenting the remark with a racial slur, so the district court shouldn’t have granted summary judgment to the automaker on her bias claims, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled.

The woman, ...