A black Muslim employee of a cable TV installing company left without a job after its acquisition sufficiently pleaded discriminatory and retaliatory treatment, a federal judge in Camden ruled in denying a defense motion for summary judgment.

The allegations “support an inference that Prince Telecom refused to accept [his] employment application, or to offer him employment, because of his race,” U.S. District Judge Renee Bumb held on July 26 in Mann v. Prince Telecom LLC, 12-cv-6263.