March 27, 2024
A Black engineer accusing Pacific Harbor Line of workplace racial bias has urged a California federal judge to bar Buchannan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP from representing the railroad company, citing a sanctions bid against his counsel that had "no evidentiary basis" and "improper" communication with a paralegal for the engineer's legal team.
October 04, 2023
A California federal judge denied Pacific Harbor Line Inc.'s motion for terminating sanctions after the court previously held that the rail company wrongly accused a Black engineer's attorneys of ignoring allegedly forged documents to support claims that a supervisor hurled racial slurs against him.
May 08, 2023
Rail company Pacific Harbor Line is asking a California federal judge to throw out a suit brought by one of seven Black engineers alleging the company ignored racist conduct, saying the former employee manipulated a document to support claims that a supervisor called him racial slurs.
August 03, 2021
Seven California engineers sued a rail company that runs trains between Los Angeles and Long Beach, saying in two suits that Black workers endured decades of vulgar, racist abuse that included death threats, white supremacist imagery and physical attacks with excrement.