A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently waded into this thorny subject. The case is Burlington v. News Corp., in which a white television reporter for the Fox affiliate in Philadelphia alleges he was terminated for using the “n-word”. The suit claims black employees who also had uttered the word were not even disciplined.
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Much ink has been spilled over the last week analyzing the background and record of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court. Given that the Supreme Court’s docket has included a large number of employment related cases in recent years, a record which is likely to continue given the