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Jury Finds Bias in Firings of Whites
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 31, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, March 30 (AP) - A federal jury ruled on Wednesday that New Orleans''s first black district attorney discriminated against 43 whites when he fired them all at once upon taking office in 2003 and replaced them with blacks.
The fired employees were awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay and damages.
The jury of eight whites and two blacks returned the unanimous verdict in the third day of deliberations in the racial discrimination case against the district attorney, Eddie Jordan.
Eight days after taking office, Mr. Jordan fired 53 of 77 white nonlawyers in his office - investigators, clerks, child-support enforcement workers and the like - and replaced them with blacks.
Months later, most of the whites sued him, and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission later made a preliminary finding that Mr. Jordan had been racially biased.
Mr. Jordan has acknowledged that he wanted to make the office more reflective of the city''s racial makeup, but he denied that he had fired whites just because of their race. In fact, he said, he had not known the race of the people fired.
Judge Stanwood Duval of Federal District Court instructed the jurors to find Mr. Jordan liable if they concluded that the firings had been racially motivated. The law bars the mass firing of a specific group, even if the intent is to create diversity.
Mr. Jordan said he would appeal.- Reply to this comment
- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002202600_bias10.html.
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- "How sad you must be to have the urge to kick human beings when they are so so so down.
Posted by nolanative1"
- Unfortunately, don''t expect much sympathy there, nonlanative1. These critics are too busy trying to stop the violence in Baghdad. Unless oil starts gushing out of our inner cities, no support is coming. Additionally, prisons are big business. You can buy the stock of many correctional facilities and the stockholders have a vested interest in keeping the vacancy rates low. - Reply to this comment
- Critics of the citizens of New Orleans--
We don''t want what''s happening. It feels like the old wild west and we don''t have the luxury to rely on the normal rules that make us safe. Because we are not. The people who have come back to New Orleans, for the most part are the bravest of them all. To be a part of this shaky time and not throw hands up and move away. This is MY town and I won''t be scared away by the thugs. But I shouldn''t be insulted for my loyalty. Think about what would happen if everything you ever knew blew away. I can''t drive by any childhood memories, of parks or schools or houses. They are gone. But i have my spirit and that''s all I can offer my city now.
and I don''t deserve bad things to continue to happen. WE ARE NOT ALL THE POOR BLACK PEOPLE YOU SAW ON ROOFTOPS. WE ARE AMERICANS.
Who cares what we look like, except the media. Tragic images are more compelling, but not the whole story.
Smarten up.
How sad you must be to have the urge to kick human beings when they are so so so down. - Reply to this comment
- how dare any of you think we are all ignorant or deserving of a situation nobody ever deserves. you truly can''t understand how simple and complicated it all is unless you''re here in new orleans. it''s easy and arrogant to solve OUR problems from your keyboard.
it is foolish to beleive everything you read, or pass judgement without information.
it''s so exhausting to still read the clucking from the old hens who think faith in the media and government is what you''re supposed to do. what happened in new orleans is closer to your doorstep than you''d ever dream.
and i do hope you don''t feel what i feel first hand. - Reply to this comment
- What I thought very important was no mention was made of the fact that the police were already in the area at the time of the shooting at the Hill''s. A nearby B&B reported a gunman there knocking on doors right before she was shot. In fact police were at the B&B when they heard gunshots & left to go to the Hill house. You can read the local news report from the paper at http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1168069740297680.xml&coll=1
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- What I thought very important was no mention was made of the fact that the police were already in the area at the time of the shooting at the Hill''s. A nearby B&B reported a gunman there knocking on doors right before she was shot. In fact police were at the B&B when they heard gunshots & left to go to the Hill house. You can read the local news report from the paper at http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1168069740297680.xml&coll=1
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- Because you are cowards who take things out on yourselves, the weak, or you just pick a "your it", instead of going after the source of your problems.
Or you are no better than the commity of 300 inbreds that rule you. - Reply to this comment
- Here is a link for DA Eddie Jordans firing of 44 whites.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002202600_bias10.html
He should be disbarred! - Reply to this comment
- Here is a link for DA Eddie Jordans firing of 44 whites.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002202600_bias10.html
He should be disbarred! - Reply to this comment
