Word: lawsuits
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This sordid tabloid riddle went mainstream last week when Curry, who is black, slapped Morgan Stanley with a Wall Street-size $1.35 billion lawsuit. The complaint charges that co-workers at the investment bank subjected Curry to racial harassment and discrimination during the nine months he was employed there. Then, Curry claims, after he appeared nude in the April 1998 issue of Playguy, a gay magazine, he was fired on the assumption that he was homosexual. He says...
Nailing down the truth in this case may be as ambitious as the financial claim in Curry's lawsuit. Several months after he left Morgan Stanley last year, the Columbia University graduate was arrested for paying undercover police $200 to plant racist e-mail messages in the Morgan Stanley computer system. The alleged motive was to bolster a planned discrimination lawsuit. Yet last week the New York district attorney's office dropped the charges after discovering that just days after Curry's arrest, Morgan Stanley officials had paid $10,000 to an informant working with the same undercover police...
Whoever paid whom, the lawsuit pitches Wall Street into familiar territory, where charges of racial discrimination have proliferated for years. "Wall Street is still very white male," says Ivan Smith, a prominent New York City employment-rights attorney. "There are tons of discrimination cases there." Just three months ago, Morgan Stanley settled a similar claim of racism by two black employees (the firm denied wrongdoing). For his part, Curry alleges he was paid less than his white counterparts and was often assigned menial work. Co-workers allegedly derided him and other African-American employees. After the magazine appeared, Curry says...
Pincham has filed a lawsuit against the city seeking $100 million in damages for the wrongful arrest of his client. Prosecutors blame the botched investigation on procedural slips and dismiss any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing by detectives handling the case. Even if Pincham prevails in court, it's clear his client will have a hard time recapturing even a faint reminder of his previous life. Once an A student, family members say the boy, now a third-grader, brings home grades that range from failing to barely passing. He has been so tormented by his peers that rather than fight...
...trace the blame to the homes that produced the killers. Doubtless too many parents can see themselves in that position to confront the uncomfortable, unfamiliar reality of suburban teenage anomie. In a country where burning yourself with a very hot cup of coffee is considered grounds for a lawsuit, the temptation to place the blame on someone -- anyone -- else is apparently irresistible, especially in the face of such an unconscionable...