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Court Rejects Motions in FCC Employee Discrimination Suit

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of Washington, D.C., having in September granted (in Pacer) a motion by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai for summary judgment dismissing a discrimination suit brought by a former agency engineer, on Monday denied (in Pacer) six…

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subsequent motions by the plaintiff. Boasberg in the docket 16-398 order said the motions seemed aimed at altering or amending the summary judgment but brought no new arguments or legal theories. Plaintiff Qihui Huang of Bethesda, Maryland, in her 2016 pro se complaint (in Pacer) against former Chairman Tom Wheeler alleged a hostile work environment at the agency involving her age, race and that she's foreign born. Huang didn't comment.