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Reason
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Eugene Volokh

"Not Only Is [the Race Discrimination Plaintiff] a Perpetual Claimant, He Is a Holdup Artist"

From Saturday's decision in Rogers v. Low Income Investment Fund, decided by Judge William Alsup (N.D. Cal.):

In this employment-discrimination action, a non-profit community development organization and its then-employees move for summary judgment against a job applicant's claims that they did not hire him for a job monitoring grants in low-income communities because he is black. The head of human resources who communicated the denial and bore the brunt of his accusations now also moves for summary judgment. Both motions are GRANTED. A motion for sanctions is GRANTED….

The whole opinion is long (over 8700 words), so I just thought I'd excerpt the sanctions section, which also discusses some of the facts and some of the bases the court gave for granting summary judgment; for more, see the full opinion:

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