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BOP Medical Worker's Race Based Termination Suit Settles For $65,000

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Retaliation against Staff, Federal Statutory Law, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Employee Litigation. Location: West Virginia.

West Virginia resident and ex Bureau of Prisons medical employee, Darrick Leacock, brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in 1995 against United States Attorney General Janet Reno after allegedly being discriminated against and subsequently fired due to his race. The $120,000 suit settled for $65,000.

Leacock began working at ...

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