Legal Opinion
Ross v. Alaska State Comm'n for Human Rights
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 2019No. Supreme Court No. S-16961PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WINFREE, Justice.
*759I. INTRODUCTION
After 36 years of service with the Alaska Railroad Corporation - most of those years as a conductor - an African-American man applied for a newly created managerial trainmaster position, but he was not chosen. He brought an unsuccessful internal racial discrimination complaint. He brought a similar complaint before the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, and it was denied. He then appealed to the superior court, and it ultimately affirmed the Commission's determination that he had failed to carry his burden of showing racial discrimination.
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