Bob Gregg, partner in Boardman Law Firm, and Cliff Bobholz, an associate,share their roundup of diversity-related legal issues. They can be reached at rgregg@boardmanlawfirm.com and cbobholz@boardmanlawfirm.com, respectively.
Race
$1.2 million for racial harassment. In Bennett v. Nucor, a jury awarded $1.2 million to six Black steel-mill employees, finding that they had been racially harassed. The case included evidence of lynching reenactments, racial slurs over the company radio system, a variety of other racial insults and the company store’s sale of items bearing the company name with the Confederate flag, which continued after the company received complaints regarding that symbol (E.D., Arkansas, 2009). The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has also certified a class-action race-discrimination suit against Nucor at an East Coast facility.
