A Texas auto dealership defeated a White worker's claim that he faced racial bias because of his biracial Black wife's social media posts, but a federal judge allowed the man's retaliation allegations to move forward.
The worker says Sewell Corp. used a colleague's discovery of his wife's semi-anonymous and pornographic online presence as pretext for racial discrimination and retaliation. He didn't put forth a prima facie associational discrimination case, but there's enough evidence in dispute to get his retaliation claim to trial, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Wednesday.