Whole Foods, Amazon Tell 1st Circuit BLM Masks Suit Was Properly Dismissed

Mealey's (June 16, 2021, 8:27 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — Whole Foods workers who filed a putative class complaint under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after being disciplined when they wore Black Lives Matter (BLM) masks and other attire failed to show disparate treatment or impact and didn’t even identify their races, “which alone justifies dismissal,” Whole Foods Market Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. argue in their appellee brief filed June 9 in the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....