Former hotel worker wins $5M

SAIPAN, M.P. — A federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands granted default judgment to the former Black employee of a Chinese hotel company that fired him and denied him work opportunities in favor of non-Americans of Asian descent despite his qualifications. He is awarded more than $5.6 million plus attorney fees and costs.

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