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$800,000 Awarded to Former California Guard for Racial Discrimination

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Racial Discrimination, Employee Litigation. Location: California.

Diane D. Epps, a former guard at a California Youth Authority (CYA) facility in Norwalk, settled her racial discrimination suit against the state for $800,000. She claimed she was denied promotions and was verbally abused by her supervisors.

Epps was employed by the CYA in 1989. She stated that she ...

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