Piggybacking Of Race Bias Charges Rejected; Class Claims Struck By Federal Judge

(April 5, 2018, 9:37 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Wells Fargo Bank N.A. branch manager who brought his racial bias claims in federal court within the 90-day window after he was issued a right-to-sue letter may proceed with most of his individual claims, but not his class ones, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in a March 28 memorandum in which he also rejected another Wells Fargo manager’s attempt to piggyback her claims several years after she filed her discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Frank Hightower, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 17-4119, E.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51697)....