Justices Pass on Black Lawmaker’s Case Over Adverse Job Act Test

The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to review former US Rep. Artur Davis’s (D) lawsuit alleging the Alabama legal services group he once headed unlawfully suspended him because he is Black.

The US government had weighed in on Davis’ case to say the court should decide whether Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against discrimination in the terms, conditions, and privileges of employment is limited to “significant” biased employer actions. The justices ruled unanimously on April 17 in a different case—Muldrow v. City of St. Louis—that workers suing over allegedly biased job transfers need ...