Long-time readers probably have heard me rail about Jordan v. Alternative Resources Corporation, an employement discrimination (retaliation) case out of Maryland. Today, the Supreme Court denied cert, ending the appeals process for Mr. Jordan, and thus answering the age old legal question:
“If a Black employee is fired for reporting to his supervisors a White colleague’s loud statement, ‘they should put those two Black monkeys in a cage and let the black apes fuck them’, where the ‘Black monkeys’ are two African-American men (where the company actually requires its employees to do just that–report racial slurs and harassment), is that illegal retaliation?”
The answer, we now know, is no, it is not.
Justice takes another massive step backwards.