Alaska High Court: Commission Had Discretion To Not Prosecute Marital Bias Case

(October 8, 2020, 7:13 AM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska State Commission on Human Rights had “substantial discretion” when it declined to prosecute a pilot’s marital status bias complaint against Federal Express Corp. (FedEx) despite its finding of “substantial evidence of illegal discrimination” and did not err in finding no retaliation by the employer, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled Sept. 18 (Russell Baker v. Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, et al., No. S-17379, Alaska Sup., 2020 Alas. LEXIS 117)....

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