Litigation is painful. It takes a lot of time, costs a lot of money, and has lots of variables that you just can’t control. Especially when the client goes off the rails and says something so ludicrous that you might as well just pack it in and cut a check.
As an example, I offer
Evans v. Canal Street Brewing. It’s a race discrimination currently pending in federal court in Detroit.
According to the Detroit Metro Times, the plaintiff, who is African-American, alleges “a racist internal corporate culture,” including the repeated used of the “N word”, and management naming its printer the “white guy printer” and the printer for lower-tier employees the “black guy printer.”
The employer’s defense? The restaurant’s general manager, Dominic Ryan, claims that he did not know Evans was black.