Late last month, a Florida jury awarded a $2.75 million verdict for Dr. Baiywo Rop, a Kenyan-born doctor who won a lawsuit accusing an Adventist Health System hospital of discriminating against him because of his race and national origin. Then, in an unusual development a week later, a judge vacated the jury's multimillion-dollar judgment against Adventist, the state’s second-largest employer.
In the latest episode of "Objections," Dr. Rop and his lawyer Jerry Girley describe how that case reminds them of a lesser-remembered part of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech."
That's the passage about the proverbial "bank of justice."
“So what we said to the jury is, 'Look, here we are again at the Bank of Justice,'" Girley recalls on the podcast. "Promises have been made. You have the authority, the ability to pay this check. It is a payment on a promise that was made hundreds of years ago. It is a payment on the notion the concept of equality before the law.”
Both describe the case, verdict, ruling and ongoing appeal on the show.
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