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Days after taking office in 2003, New Orleans' first black district attorney fired 53 white employees and replaced them with blacks.
Eddie Jordan denied he fired the employees just because they are white, but a federal jury determined he discriminated against 43 of the workers who sued him and awarded them about $1.8 million in back pay and damages on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval could order that the fired white workers be reinstated, but lawyers consider this unlikely. Such mandates are rare, as they require continuing court supervision.
The jury _ made up of eight whites and two blacks _ returned its unanimous verdict in the third day of deliberations.
A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit claiming a former Assumption High School baseball coach made racist remarks toward a minority player.
Sherman Johnson, an African American who played baseball at Assumption High from 2010 to 2014, alleged discrimination when he sued his former head coach Daniel Manry last August. Others named in the lawsuit are assistant coaches Chad Vignes and Richard Abarr, Assumption High Principal Niles Riche and the School Board.
Manry created a “racially hostile environment” for Johnson, causing him to suffer “unconscionable mental anguish, shame, humiliation, loss of self-esteem, confusion and anger” during his four years in high school, Johnson alleges in court documents.
BATON ROUGE, La. —
The first piece of legislation that would create school policies for virtual learning was passed unanimously in the full Senate on Wednesday, a move that rarely happens.
HB 83 went before the Senate Education Committee Monday and the House of Representatives last week, both with unanimous support.
The Senate voted unanimously with 35 votes.
The bill still has to go back to the House for amendments before heading to the governor's desk.