LOS ANGELES (CN) — CBS Broadcasting Inc. prevailed in a lawsuit brought by Jeff Vaughn, a former evening news anchor at its KCBS and KCAL local Los Angeles stations, who claimed he got replaced because he was an older, white, heterosexual, male.
U.S. District Judge Hernán Vera granted summary judgment to the network because, the judge said, “there was no ’there’ there” to Vaughn’s claims that he was replaced by a Black man just because he was white.
“The evidence does not generate a triable issue of fact as to whether race was a motivating factor,” the judge wrote. “Vaughn reads racial discrimination into facts that simply do not support that inference, even when viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to him.”
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