An ex-employee petitioned the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a suit against the Buckeye Cellulose Corporation of Georgia, claiming that the company's policy of terminating employees for "absence and tardiness" was racially biased because it had a disparate impact on blacks.

A Denver teacher sued for racial discrimination when she was dismissed from her job after school officials caught her helping a student involved in a fight to hide a knife, and after she pled guilty to Medicaid fraud.

The Postal Service was sued in 1990 by a job applicant whose driver's license had been suspended four times, and who claimed that the agency's policy of not hiring individuals as mail carriers whose licenses had been suspended unfairly discriminated against blacks—even though carriers must drive government vehicles to deliver the mail.

The Internal Revenue Service was sued for discrimination after it fired a black secretary who refused to answer the telephone.

The City of Houston was sued for racial discrimination by a white employee who, as a federal judge noted, was "repeatedly out of the office for long stretches of time without explanation, slept frequently at his desk, and shirked direct requests from his supervisors."

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