Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Polk County Judge Rejects Class Action Racial Discrimination Suit

A Polk County judge has turned down a class-action lawsuit alleging that Iowa’s failure to monitor its state hiring system improperly allowed decades “of implicit bias” to creep into personnel decisions and unintentionally harm blacks. District Judge Robert Blink's ruling found that an admittedly “uncommon approach” by plaintiffs in Pippen v. State of Iowa failed to prove what's necessary to win a discrimination lawsuit under state and federal law.

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