S&P Global’s Missing Contract Dooms Bid for Early Bias Case End

S&P Global Inc. lost its bid for a pretrial win in an ex-employee’s discrimination and retaliation case after it failed to find the executed copy of a separation agreement that purportedly released the claims.

The financial information services provider argued that the worker’s sexual harassment allegations should fail because she accepted more than $123,000 as part of an agreement not to sue. But S&P “can’t find the executed copy” of the separation agreement, which the worker says she never signed, and its arguments to enforce the contract anyway fail, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ...