Procter & Gamble cannot appeal Judge’s DACA bias finding
On Friday, November 6, 2020, a federal judge in Florida ruled that Procter & Gamble (P&G) could not appeal her June denial of its summary judgment bid in a proposed class action over its hiring practices. The denial was issued because P&G based their request on “entirely new arguments” that it failed to raise at the prior stage of the lawsuit. In June, the judge found that P&G’s automatic rejection of internship applications from DACA beneficiaries was discriminatory. This stemmed from a suit filed by a DACA recipient in July 2017. According to the suit, P&G used an online questionnaire to automatically reject applications from noncitizens who responded “no” when asked if they were permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S. Counsel for P&G did not comment.