The federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled that a race discrimination lawsuit against Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Co. can go to trial.
The court ruled in favor of former employee Anthony Mitten, who is white and worked as a supervisor at Lockheed's plant in Marietta. Mitten was fired in May 2005 after he received and then forwarded to his supervisor a racially insensitive e-mail about blacks. Mitten sued Lockheed in 2006 after he learned that two black employees had transmitted racist e-mails targeting whites but had only received temporary suspensions.
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