DEA agents in reverse-bias suit awarded $7M, but will get less
Two Drug Enforcement Administration agents who sued the U.S. Attorney General and the Justice Department for reverse discrimination were awarded $7 million in damages by a federal jury last Friday.
But the agents will receive far less.
Compensatory damages for employment-discrimination claims against the feds are capped by law at $300,000 per plaintiff.
The jury found that the DEA through its supervisors had “intentionally discriminated” against George W. Marthers III and Jude T. McKenna by creating a hostile work environment because of their race.
Marthers and McKenna are white; their former supervisors, Dempsey Jones and Johnny Fisher, are black.
The jury also found that the supervisors retaliated against the agents after they filed an internal complaint with DEA in March 2002 and later with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The agents alleged that they had been constantly harassed, verbally and physically, and said that Fisher even had a black agent spy on them.
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DEA agents in reverse-bias suit awarded $7M, but will get less
Philadelphia Daily News
