| Bipolar
Employee Who
Said ICE
Discriminated
Against Him
Loses in ADA
Jury Trial in
SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 13 – A man who sued
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for discriminating
and retaliating against him as
an employee with bipolar
disorder lost his trial on
November 13, 2023.
Patrick Conklin said he told
ICE of his mood disorders and
sometimes slow work when
hired. But 10,000 cases got
added to his caseload.
After a
weeklong trial before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Sidney H. Stein, the
eight member civil jury came
back at 5 pm on November 13.
Inner City Press was there.
Before the
jurors came in Judge Stein
told Conklin he had gotten his
day in court, and he
agreed.
Then the
jurors said not liable for
discrimination, not liable for
retaliation. The plaintiff's
lawyers asked the judge to
tell the jurors they could now
speak. But they are under no
obligation to, the Judge
reminded, and went back to
tell them they could if they
chose it.
The case was
Conklin v. U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, et
al., 20-cv-8178 (Stein)
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