Fourteen autoworkers at General Motors' Pontiac truck assembly plant and the Pontiac engineering and development center are suing the automaker for $7.4 billion, accusing GM of civil rights violations. In a suit filed in circuit court, the 14 allege GM discriminates in hiring and ignores racial intimidation in the workplace, including nooses hung at workstations and workers dressed in Ku Klux Klan-type garb. The alleged incidents occurred in 2000 and 2001. The 14 workers are black, Mexican-American or Native American. A 15th plaintiff, a black man, alleges he was denied a job because of his race. Suburban Detroit attorney Wallace...