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Article: Social worker wins $150,000 settlement against state of Missouri
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- Missouri Lawyers Media
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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The state of Missouri agreed to pay $150,000 to a former employee
to settle a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed in
Jackson County Circuit Court.
Henry Service, of Gardner, Kan., was hired in October 2002 by the
state Department of Health and Senior Services as a social worker in
the Kansas City office. He applied for and was transferred to the
position of facility surveyor II in January 2004.
According to his lawsuit, David Durbin, deputy director of senior
services and regulation, objected to the transfer. Service, a black
man, met "resistance almost immediately" upon his transfer, the suit
alleged. One of his supervisors, Mary-Anne Knowles, refused to give
him proper ...