BATON ROUGE - Chandre’ Chaney filed a lawsuit on Jan. 10 in the Middle District of Louisiana against the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Louisiana State University Health Science Center for race discrimination, wrongful termination, and retaliation.
According to the lawsuit, Chaney, a Black woman, was an employee of Louisiana State University Health Science Center as a program manager for the Louisiana Cancer Prevention and Control Programs and was assigned to work for the Colorectal Cancer Grant.
Chaney alleges being discriminated against, mistreated and harassed because of her race by other employees. Beginning in October 2019, and continuing until the end of Chaney’s employment, it is alleged one supervisor would not cooperate with or support Chaney and other African American staff members.
In November 2019, Chaney was told her employees didn't trust her and she needed to build trust with them and was asked in a leadership team meeting if she had smoked marijuana before or ever been to jail.
In another instance, during a teleconference meeting, her co-workers commented about being surprised her house was so nice and had made that comment to another African American employee during teleconferencing.
Chaney alleges that African American staff members were tasked with taking on extra work and duties outside of their job description in comparison to Caucasian staff members
Chaney seeks damages and is represented by Arthur Smith III of Baton Rouge
Middle District Court of Louisiana case number 3:22-cv-00016-SDD-EWD