{"id":249725,"date":"2025-09-23T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249725\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:42:11","slug":"nbas-suns-get-fired-diversity-leaders-job-bias-suit-narrowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249725\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA\u2019s Suns Get Fired Diversity Leader\u2019s Job Bias Suit Narrowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/litigation\/analytics\/companies\/c83fbd2ef00ff5be5aae9f8ad635827b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suns Legacy Partners LLC<\/a> doesn\u2019t have to face a former DEI leader\u2019s race bias and retaliation claims under Arizona law or negligence-based allegations, a federal judge ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Trischan waited too long to sue the company behind the Phoenix Suns under the Arizona Civil Rights Act, and her negligent infliction of emotional distress and negligent supervision claims were barred by the state workers\u2019 compensation law, the US District Court for the District of Arizona said. She was hired after the National Basketball Association ordered the team to address its diversity, equity and inclusion shortcomings. She says her boss treated her &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns Legacy Partners LLC doesn\u2019t have to face a former DEI leader\u2019s race bias and retaliation claims under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[132388,69332,132390,1260,132391,132389,132392,62,132387,67,132,68,49489],"class_list":{"0":"post-249725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-contributory-negligence","9":"tag-diversity-and-inclusion","10":"tag-employment-discrimination","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-negligent-supervision","13":"tag-race-discrimination","14":"tag-retaliatory-discharge","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-statutes-of-limitations","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-workers-compensation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115255322214074139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}