A final settlement has been reached in a December 2023 lawsuit challenging diversity efforts in State Bar of Wisconsin programs. The bar previously agreed in April 2024 to redefine "diversity" as it applies to its Diversity Clerkship Program, which offers paid Wisconsin summer internships at private law firms, corporate legal departments and governmental agencies.
"He's got complicated grief and sorrow and his own emotional stress," said Njoroge's lawyer, Robert Clifford. "He's haunted by nightmares and the loss of his wife and children."
"We learned that for 30 years this CSD employee was hurting students, and intimidating and threatening CSD employees. Despite repeated red flags, the school kept him employed."
Patricia Jaggernauth alleged systemic racism, sexism, and discrimination at Bell Media, feeling treated as a token and struggling with her mental health during employment.
The $16 million settlement over an interview CBS' 60 Minutes conducted last fall with then-Vice President Kamala Harris smooths the path for Redstone and Paramount to secure the approval of the Federal Communications Commission to sell the company to Skydance Media.
MWD Board Chair Adán Ortega Jr. said the litigation had for too long complicated the relationship between his agency, which delivers water for 19 million people, and the San Diego County Water Authority, which is a member of MWD and supplies water for 3.3 million people.