Opinion ID: 4019782
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Factual challenges

Text: Employees raise various challenges to the trial court's factual findings that generally relate to the duration and frequency of the State's race-based staffing practices. Although the trial court found that the race-based staffing directive lasted only one weekend and that Employees have not been subjected to similar staffing incidents, Employees claim the State maintains a policy of racial staffing that it has used on other occasions. We find that substantial evidence supports the trial court's factual findings. The trial court weighed the witnesses' testimony and credibility and implicitly determined that other staffing decisions described were not substantially similar to the racial staffing directive at issue in April 2011, which involved a clear communication that no staff members of a certain race were to be assigned to a particular ward over the course of one weekend. Based on our review of the record, Employees' challenges are not sufficient to disturb the trial court's factual findings under the substantial evidence standard.