ALBANY – A black Amtrak engineer who was fired for abusing travel privileges can pursue his discrimination claim because white employees apparently violate the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’s rules of worker conduct with impunity, a federal judge in Albany has ruled.
Northern District U.S. Judge Lawrence E. Kahn said in Turner v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, a/k/a Amtrak, 99-CV-0652, that a reasonable jury could infer that the proffered reason for firing the plaintiff was a pretext for unlawful discrimination.
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