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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:42 AM Jul 2016

Lawsuit: Clinic fired woman because of husband’s race

A Hurricane woman alleges she was wrongfully terminated from Charleston’s FamilyCare Health Center because her husband is a black man, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Putnam County Circuit Court.

Tara Drew, a medical assistant for WomenCare Inc, doing business as FamilyCare Health Center on Pennsylvania Avenue, had been employed by the center since Dec. 2, 2013, the complaint said. Drew, a white woman, married a black man and the two have one child together, according to the complaint.

On Feb. 25, Drew went to the cafeteria inside nearby Charleston Area Medical Center Women and Children’s to purchase breakfast, the complaint said.

Drew stepped in line to purchase her $1.60 breakfast consisting of tater tots and French toast, but a man stepped in front of her to purchase her breakfast for her, according to the complaint. Drew protested against the man buying her breakfast, but he had already purchased it, the complaint said.

- See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-cops-and-courts/20160717/lawsuit-clinic-fired-woman-because-of-husbands-race#sthash.891jc7yw.dpuf

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Lawsuit: Clinic fired woman because of husband’s race (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2016 OP
From this article it isn't clear if the termination was due to the intermarriage or not, however, still_one Jul 2016 #1

still_one

(96,551 posts)
1. From this article it isn't clear if the termination was due to the intermarriage or not, however,
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 07:16 AM
Jul 2016

however, it sure looks like they were looking for the lamest excuse to terminate her. Just based on an unknown person as buying her 1.60 breakfast by itself looks like an unlawful termination.

More information is needed that isn't supplied in the article

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