SpaceX found a legal workaround to block the DOJ’s discrimination lawsuit
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6G8PE)
Laura Normand / The Verge The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX won a court order preventing the Department of Justice's hiring discrimination lawsuit from moving forward, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Judge Rolando Olvera ruled that the DOJ's administrative judges don't have the authority to review the case.
The DOJ sued SpaceX in August over allegations that the company refused to hire asylum seekers and refugees. The agency, which has been investigating SpaceX's hiring practices since 2020, accused SpaceX of discouraging refugees and asylum seekers from applying by wrongly stating that SpaceX can only hire U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents."
SpaceX countersued the DOJ in response, alleging that the administrative law...