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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Race discrimination at Duke

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Duke University will face portions of the race discrimination and retaliation claims brought against it by a Black former employee that the university failed to rehire after he engaged in protected activity: complaining to HR of racial discrimination. The university argues the people who fired him were not aware of his protected activity, but at this stage, the former worker does not need to evidence this to maintain his failure-to-rehire retaliation claim.

Read the ruling here.

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