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  • Workers' bias suit ends in win, slur

    12/20/2005 4:08:51 AM PST · by sportutegrl · 23 replies · 1,379+ views
    The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Posted on Tue, Dec. 20, 2005 | By John Shiffman, Inquirer Staff Writer
    Four white men fired by the Philadelphia School District have won a racial-discrimination lawsuit, and a federal jury awarded them nearly $3 million in damages. After Friday's verdict, Carl E. Singley, a prominent African American lawyer who represented the school district, exchanged words with some members of the all-white jury as they rode a courthouse elevator. He called them "crackers," four jurors said in interviews. Within 30 minutes, U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle 3d brought Singley and five of the seven jurors in the case back into his courtroom. Singley, a former Temple Law School dean, promptly apologized. "What I...