Black Ex-Abbott Sales Executive Loses Appeal of Bias Trial Loss
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 14, 2022
Sept. 13, 2022, 3:52 PM
- Didn’t show stereotyping expert, instruction wrongly nixed
- Texts of race bias laws not improperly kept from jury charge
Abbott Laboratories’ trial win against a Black regional sales manager was upheld by Seventh Circuit, which rejected her contentions that errors by a lower court unfairly hindered her ability to show her inclusion in a workforce reduction was driven by race and retaliation.
Jacinta Downing asserted that various evidence she offered, including the testimony of her expert witness on stereotyping and racial bias, was . . .
