Posted on 12/21/2007 8:00:05 PM PST by SmithL
PST SAN FRANCISCO - The city of San Francisco must pay about $1 million in attorneys' fees to a white man who filed a successful race-discrimination suit after he was passed up for a promotion at San Francisco International Airport, a state appeals court ruled Friday.
Allen Harmon won $30,300 in damages in a 2004 verdict by a San Mateo County jury that concluded he was rejected for a supervisor's job in 1998 at least in part because of his race. A minority candidate got the promotion, and Harmon's lawyer said he had to wait 16 months to get the same job through a race-neutral civil service promotion.
Harmon's suit, filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation, claimed that the city had designed hiring and promotional policies at the airport to reflect the Bay Area's racial and ethnic makeup. The city denied having racial quotas or bias, saying most of the promotions awarded at the time went to white men, but later changed the policy that Harmon had challenged.
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Affirmative action sucks
$1 million is a good start. IMHO in this case it should be a lot higher.
He got $30k and his lawyers got $1 million?
Let them pay for their foolish agenda.
You’re talking over 3,000 hours if it’s $300 an hour... I really would like to see reform that nails down these insane costs that are only supported by these deep pocket litigation cases.
A lousy mill? Usually we see nice fat numbers like $50 or $100 mill. What can you buy with that?
Unfortunately, this will mean nothing to the Do Gooders.
They learn Nothing unless it is accompanied by death.. even then it’s a toss up.
At some point a feudal society is going to look like a better alternative than the silly $hit coming out of the courts.
No, $30K. His lawyer got the mill.
Remember: it’s only discrimination if it holds back minorities....
Not the court’s fault,though. It’s the statute’s.
Of course not - - it's not their money. So what do they care?
It’s usually the ACLU taking advantage of that little-known gold-mine.
That law needs to be changed.
But without it, do you think any lawyer would have taken his case, just for a chance to get a slice of the $30K he was awarded?
Not the court’s fault,though. It’s the statute’s.
Which was written by.... Most likely lawyers!!
Jack
Reverse discrimination.....
punishing White Males for no good reason.....
the Democrat agenda.
“He got $30k and his lawyers got $1 million?”
Yes, his lawyer, sir, had to WORK for HIS money.
This code has spawned a cottage industry that does not provide a product or public good but simply litigates to exist because there is a large, unregulated, supply of tax money from which to draw.
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