“This agreement is the culmination of more than three decades of hard-fought litigation combating race discrimination,” class counsel David Sanford said in a statement, “and the settlement will provide meaningful relief for African Americans in the Marshals Service and those denied an opportunity to become Marshals.”
June 25, 2024 at 02:43 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has granted final approval of a $15 million class action settlement resolving a decadeslong complaint accusing the government of discriminating against Black Americans in its hiring and promotional practices for deputy U.S. Marshal positions.
Sanford Heisler Sharp as class counsel and the U.S. Marshals Service announced the settlement approval Monday in separate press releases confirming the EEOC administrative judge’s final decision.
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