FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1965, photo, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President's Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington. Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish that provision off. Surrounding the president from left directly above his right hand, Vice President Hubert Humphrey; House Speaker John McCormack; Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y.; first daughter Luci Johnson; and Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill. Behind Humphrey is House Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma; and behind Celler is Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. (AP Photo)
US judge tosses discrimination suit against Kaplan
Published: 08:29:45 PM, Tue 29 January 2013 UTC
CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge in Ohio has tossed out a lawsuit accusing Kaplan Higher Education Corp. of discriminating against black job applicants.
The federal district court judge in Cleveland ruled in favor of Kaplan on Monday.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit near the end of 2010. The suit accused the for-profit education company of discriminating by screening and rejecting some job seekers based on their credit history.
Kaplan maintained that it has a diverse workforce and does not discriminate.
It says it did background checks on all potential employees and reviewed credit histories of applicants whose duties would include financial matters. Kaplan says that's a standard practice used by many companies.
Kaplan is a unit of Washington Post Co.
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