Whirlpool Corp. is in more hot water for alleged racial discrimination at a Tennessee facility that’s landed the company in court three times in the last year — twice before the same federal appellate court — and cost it more than $1 million in damages.

Most recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit on Jan. 26 revived a six-year-old lawsuit filed by three African-American workers who allege they were subjected to daily verbal abuse and a hostile working environment at a now-defunct facility in La Vergne, Tenn.

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