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Discrimination

A federal judge refused Beaumont Health System’s request to dismiss a nurse’s claim of racial discrimination, as replacing her with a white nurse after a patient called her a “black bitch” is evidence of racial discrimination.

DETROIT — A federal judge denied summary judgment in a case where a nurse says she was replaced by a white colleague after she reported overhearing that a patient had called her a “black bitch.”

Categories / Civil Rights, Employment

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