A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging Texas A&M University's hiring practices racially discriminatory since the professor who complained never applied for a job.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday that accusedRichard Lowery, a white finance professor at the University of Texas, purported that the university's hiring practices were unlawful. Lowery claimed the university's hiring practices were unfair"by giving discriminatory preferences to females and non-Asian racial minorities at the expense of white and Asian men.
U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge in Houston granted Texas A&M's motion to dismiss. The judge said Lowery could not assume ongoing discrimination at the university solely based on allegations of discriminatory practices that deterred him from applying.
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