© 2024 University of Missouri - KBIA
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

New Trial Ordered in Harris-Stowe Discrimination Case

The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a professor who alleged she lost her job at a historically black public university in St. Louis because of discrimination.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the court issued the ruling Tuesday in the case of Shereen Kader. She had been awarded $2.5 million after a St. Louis jury agreed that her contract with Harris-Stowe State University wasn't renewed based on her ethnicity. Kader is a Caucasian of Egyptian origin and an Arab Muslim.

After her visa expired, she was denied a leave of absence during a 30-day grace period in which she could stay in the U.S but couldn't work. She sued in 2010. The court said Harris-Stowe couldn't have employed her legally at the time.

The Associated Press is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, international subscribers and commercial customers. AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, it's a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members.