On Sept. 13, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a May 2009 ruling in which a U.S. district court dismissed a former Dallas County assistant DA’s complaint alleging District Attorney Craig Watkins fired him on the basis of race.
In his November 2007 complaint in Rick Jackson v. Craig Watkins and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office , filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Jackson, who is white, alleged he was wrongly fired by Watkins and replaced with a less-experienced black attorney.
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