Settlement Announced In Coroner Discrimination Lawsuit

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in a racial discrimination lawsuit against a Mississippi Gulf Coast county and its coroner. David Owens, a lawyer representing six black-owned funeral homes, says Harrison County and its coroner will agree to a written policy to give all the county's funeral homes an equal chance at county-controlled business and pay $110,000 in damages. "It's time to come together so everyone can have an equal opportunity to try to participate in the business," Owens said. The trial centered on allegations that Coroner Gary Hargrove steered county business to two white-owned funeral homes to the detriment of the black-owned funeral homes, alleging federal civil rights and state law violations against a backdrop of a business that remains starkly segregated by race in the Deep South. Hargrove testified during the trial that he was "colorblind" in his duties.

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Settlement Announced In Coroner Discrimination Lawsuit

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