RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is headed to the courtroom via Zoom for a remote trial on April 5, 2021 as the defendant.
The case, Scott Kingston vs. International Business Machines Corp., case number 2:19-cv-01488, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, moves to trial after Judge Marsha Pechman denied IBM’s motion for a summary judgment on all of Kingston’s claims, on March 1.
Kingston alleges he was terminated by IBM in retaliation for protesting IBM’s decision to cap the commission of a Black employee on a large deal weeks after the company paid a white employee in full on a similarly sized deal.