The state of Missouri agreed to pay $150,000 to a former employee to settle a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed in Jackson County Circuit Court. Henry Service, of Gardner, Kan., was hired in October 2002 by the state Department ...

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Mark Jess has made legal splashes representing white clients who say they were victims of racial bias. Just don’t make the mistake of calling them instances of “reverse discrimination.” “I really take umbrage with that term,” said Jess, of The ...

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The former interim general manager of Fleishman-Hillard’s Kansas City office says he suffered age and gender discrimination when he was fired last year. Warren Dudley claimed the younger woman who was selected over him for the permanent general manager position ...

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