A Connecticut federal judge’s ruling will allow the discrimination lawsuit of a supermarket manager to move forward. Jorge Mercado, who worked in a Price Rite store, claims he was repeatedly harassed about his Puerto Rican heritage, falsely accused of threatening another employee with a gun and swarmed by police officers and forced into a cruiser.
U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton recently ruled that the evidence was sufficient to allow Mercado to go to trial on an array of discrimination claims as well as on a count of negligent infliction of emotional distress. However, the New Jersey-based supermarket chain was successful in getting another count, for intentional infliction of emotional stress, dismissed.
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