June 17, 2024
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection must pay nearly $139,000 in attorney fees to W. Martyn Philpot Jr. after a Black employee won a federal jury verdict on racial hostility claims, including accusations that he found a noose hanging near his desk in a state office building.
February 28, 2024
A Black employee of Connecticut's state energy and environmental regulator is asking a federal judge to award more than $200,000 in attorney fees after he prevailed in a lawsuit alleging that he was racially tormented and exposed to nooses in a hostile work environment.
February 20, 2024
Connecticut's state energy and environmental regulator is liable for the hostile work environment that a Black employee endured before and after he claimed that he found a noose near his workstation in June 2018, a federal jury has found.
February 13, 2024
A Black employee of Connecticut's energy and environmental regulator who claims he found a noose in his workplace in 2018 will not face new sanctions for deleting the alleged photo evidence, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in declining to end the hostile workplace lawsuit midtrial.
February 02, 2024
Connecticut's environment and energy regulator told a federal jury Friday that a Black inspector who accused the agency of failing to remedy years of racial workplace hostility gave contradictory statements and deleted a photo that purported to document a noose tied near his desk.