If a party to a civil lawsuit accuses his opponent’s lawyers of any sort of racial stereotyping, judges must order a retrial. That appears to be the implication of an October ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court. When litigants claim that racial bias affected a trial verdict, state justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis wrote in a […]
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